My question is why was Yale hiding and protecting the president of the Brazilian Supreme Court?
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So we'd have to get groped by the government before we can get on the net?
I'm only half kidding but I wonder if the admiral isn't.
In another generation or two, people will have the ability to design and print their own circuit boards. Technology itself is becoming decentralized which will have the longterm effect of decentralizing society.
Less than 200 years ago, railroads were the height of technological achievement and the most powerful centralizing force in society, industry and government.
From the point of view of large producers and investors, sure. Tesla's idea of decentralized power was viewed as pie-in-the-sky by his benefactor, JP Morgan.
I wouldn't call nuclear power a success story.
$2 billion on a centralized project in the age of increasing decentralization seems like waste of money.
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099...
As for PGP, Phil Zimmerman was even clearer in his intentions [2]:
[2] http://www.pgpi.org/doc/whypgp/en/
Technology is a response to politics as well as a catalyst for political change. To attempt to "de-politify" technology as a matter of course is like castrating a prize bull.
Until nerds produce something that changes the political game.
PGP, Bit Torrent and Bitcoin are three examples.
OT, but a good rule to follow in civil public discussion is avoid imputing motive or desire on the part of the person you're conversing with.
IOW, avoid making it personal if you don't want to appear rude or uncivil.
It's urgent to a lot of Americans, judging by the non-mainstream legs this story has.
Unfiltered data. The other fact shared is that Israelis are on the honor system with the data. As with any other spies, Israeli intel isn't known for its adherence to law or agreements.
I think it's safe to assume that Israelis have high access to the same intel the NSA has on American officials.
> Notably, a much stricter rule was set for US government communications found in the raw intelligence. The Israelis were required to "destroy upon recognition" any communication "that is either to or from an official of the US government". Such communications included those of "officials of the executive branch (including the White House, cabinet departments, and independent agencies), the US House of Representatives and Senate (member and staff) and the US federal court system (including, but not limited to, the supreme court)".
The NSA is giving intel about officials in the US government to another country, on the honor system.
Snowden and Manning are considered traitors for doing even less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H20Naj176M0
Amdocs "helped" install the phone lines in the White House in 1997.
Do you that the NSA loves us all and is just, y'know, kinda watching out for us?
We all need a big brother to save us, right?
What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If some brave soul tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their E-mail, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their E-mail privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity."
Phil Zimmerman, 1994
I'd posit that the political classes are an evolutionary obstacle for the technical community to solve. If successful, we thrive. If unsuccessful, technology will be owned by the political classes and we're beholden to them until we solve the problem.
Coins were around for millenia before paper money. The earliest paper money I know of is the bark money written of by Marco Polo [1]. Europeans got their idea for paper money from the Chinese.
[1] http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/marco-polo-on-money
"The actual process of money creation takes place primarily in banks. As noted earlier, checkable liabilities of banks are money. These liabilities are customers' accounts. They increase when customers deposit currency and checks and when the proceeds of loans made by the banks are credited to borrowers' accounts.
In the absence of legal reserve requirements, banks can build up deposits by increasing loans and investments so long as they keep enough currency on hand to redeem whatever amounts the holders of deposits want to convert into currency. This unique attribute of the banking business was discovered many centuries ago.
It started with goldsmiths. As early bankers, they initially provided safekeeping services, making a profit from vault storage fees for gold and coins deposited with them. People would redeem their "deposit receipts" whenever they needed gold or coins to purchase something, and physically take the gold or coins to the seller who, in turn, would deposit them for safekeeping, often with the same banker. Everyone soon found that it was a lot easier simply to use the deposit receipts directly as a means of payment. These receipts, which became known as notes, were acceptable as money since whoever held them could go to the banker and exchange them for metallic money.
Then, bankers discovered that they could make loans merely by giving their promises to pay, or bank notes, to borrowers. In this way, banks began to create money. More notes could be issued than the gold and coin on hand because only a portion of the notes outstanding would be presented for payment at any one time. Enough metallic money had to be kept on hand, of course, to redeem whatever volume of notes was presented for payment.
Transaction deposits are the modern counterpart of bank notes. It was a small step from printing notes to making book entries crediting deposits of borrowers, which the borrowers in turn could "spend" by writing checks, thereby "printing" their own money."
Modern Money Mechanics - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
[1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern_Money_Mechanics/Introdu...
Exactly. Prove your claim.
We can't assume that government agents are on the up and up. Their word is open to question if they have no proof of their claims. Since they don't deny the story, I tend to lean to Mr. Mukerjee's perceptions as a more accurate account of the day.