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In reply to the discussion: An alternative view from a “lackey butt-kissing shit” [View all]jazzimov
(1,456 posts)I especially loved your summary of FDR - a great leader and politician, but imperfect.
I also support Obama - but I'll be the first to admit he is not "perfect", either. In fact, I do have criticisms that I would like to air about Obama but I am afraid to because of the atmosphere here at DU. He's not perfect, but he's the best we have had in a long, long time.
We REALLY need to have a SERIOUS discussion about Federal spying - both the necessities and the Right to privacy. For decades, I have been warned that anything you email or post on the web "never disappears" and is available to anyone.
I do training with POS (Point Of Sale) equipment and am more than familiar with PCI compliance wherein the Credit Card companies are trying to limit the access to Bank info - and I also know that most of their rules are merely for PR purposes and no relation to "reality" and are just efforts to make it look like "they're trying". PR, plain and simply.
BTW, triple - DES encryption was hacked before it even became a compliance law. Luckily, most of the guys who hacked it are now "good guys" working for private security services. In this instance, Free Market Forces actually paid off! The defining statement being "in this instance".... I support a blend of Capitalist/Socialist economics, each brings their own special qualities and problems. Neither is the "answer".
Regardless, I think we need a serious discussion about Threats and Privacy. Without the childish name-calling.