HTTPS also protects against spying on the specific sub-page you're on for example. That's valuable.
Besides installing a Let's Encrypt cert is straightforward these days.
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Besides installing a Let's Encrypt cert is straightforward these days.
Since when is killing journalists not a warcrime?
WikiLeaks tried to get the Pentagon to help them redact documents[1]. They refused to do so knowing there would be people like you accusing WikiLeaks/Manning of wrongdoing here.
> I like Manning as a person, but state secrets exist for a reason and she deserved to be imprisoned for her crimes.
You do realize she shed light on war crimes right? Do you consider war crimes 'state secrets' that 'exist for a reason'?
The reason, oftentimes, is simply to hide wrongdoing, as was the case here. The fact Manning was imprisoned, (and tortured), while the killers of civilians and journalists she exposed were not shows that this is not a just system. It's designed to chill whileblowers and allow atrocities to continue, unpunished.
How anyone could support that is beyond me.
Then you've been duped. The prosecution of Assange is based on his work with Chelsea Manning on US war crimes in Iraq.
But if the lives of poor brown people far away are not as important as cheap partizanship then the CIA can make you believe anything.
Not to mention the fact HRC called for the assassination of Assange and his treatment has been characterized by the UN as torture. I presume you're OK with torture too as long as you think it serves your club?
is an extremely US-sided view.
Speaking to Russians, they'd tell you that they'd love to get along with the US, but that Americans only have 2 modes of operation i.e. be submissive to US like the EU is, (that certainly is the case with the EU as someone living there I can conform, just look at the weak EU response of the US pulling from the Iran Deal for example), or be an archenemy that needs to be vilified & threatened.
They'd tell you that NATO is threatening their borders & that the US would never tolerate Russian troop buildup in Mexico.
Take the 2016 US election as an example, everyone freaked out. Hardly anyone ever mentioned that the US started meddling in Russian elections more than two decades earlier.
Granted, I think the current 'setup' with the US being the archenemy suits the Russian government just fine for domestic audiences, which is especially ironic as it actively hurts real, independent, democratic movements.
It also suits US defense contractors, 'cyber' experts and various grifters offering to combat misinformation.
The problem is that they're not necessarily the best i.e. some poor person if given the same resources, education, access etc. might in fact do a lot better with what they have, we'll just never know.
I mean if you look at the state of today's world, handling of COVID, shams like Nikola etc. are these really the 'best' people humanity has to offer?
Was presumably meant in reference to neighboring countries where Russia involves itself to the point where it would be wiser for a citizen of such a country to store their data in the West.
The U.S. is not a country fitting this definition by any stretch.
Sounds just like "I am a Mac user installing Linux on a cheap best buy laptop and whoa it doesn't work as well supporting a pretty obscure config that macOS would never even boot on, but am going to compare to my top of the line MBP and complain".
I've put the "as far as I can tell" part in there precisely BECAUSE from what we CAN tell i.e. has been declassified or leaked, it pretty much all terrible shit that has nothing to do with protecting national security.
Of course there's a lot we can't tell, but given the stories we can tell the ratio of good/bad is way out of whack in favor of the bad, especially given CIA's tendency to selectively leak good stories about itself and its extensive declassified historical record, the amount of 'good' should be a lot higher than it is.
Destroying torture records for example shows that it is way more concerned with illegally concealing bad behavior than avoiding it in the first place.
Just look at the U.S. handling of COVID and how there's still no universal healthcare. China did a much better job here even if you think their figures aren't exact, (most likely true, but so is the case in places like Florida etc.)
I don't think they're somehow uniquely more corrupt that here in the West, they're however much younger, (convenient how we disregard our meddling there for centuries), they're trying to match the West in as short timespan as possible and of course they're going to line up their pockets along the way, as almost everyone with enough power and access does when given the chance, sadly. But they've also massively expanded the middle class and lifted people from poverty.
Remember the U.S. had slavery and yes it is appropriate to compare that since the U.S. had the same government then than it does now, China didn't.
As China grows in strength and prosperity so do its laws become more worker friendly as it transitions from a factory for the world to a more knowledge based economy. In other words it follows a fairly standard development trajectory, just on a much shorter timeframe so the abuses are more visible and less spread out, unlike in the West. Plus there's more technology to document it all.
It's quite something.
One couldn't argue that as they knew about Chinese labor law violations at Foxconn & Pegatron.
Do you seriously think China has laws that mandate abuse of workers?
And defenders of Israeli actions using the defense of people 'hating on Israel' instead of reflecting on the fact that people have genuine policy disagreements with what Israel does has been a popular deflection tactic for decades.
You can't divorce what Israel does on a daily basis from its image and then act surprised when it is being criticized.
Personal opinion, but I think the mandatory army service in Israel seems to teach that everything is 'defense' and Israel is always 'defending itself', no matter what, this sort of thinking then bleeds into the private sector as these guys leave the military and use the skills they learned there to establish businesses.
Having interacted with the Palestinians during their army service as 'the enemy', the victims of NSO undoubtedly fall into the same category, thus not worth loosing their sleep over.
Does it really matter if they're independent if they disregard the law in exactly the same way the Israeli government does?
I want to be able to tell my children I didn't participate in that.