Tag: National Security Agency
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The libertarianism in the Internet
It can be dangerous when politicians open their mouths. In the case of Donald Trump, it’s because he spews hatred and racism and has gathered support from a lot of dittoheads for doing so. But in one way both he and Hillary Clinton have something in common: they don’t really understand the Internet. It would…
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Why do we want to put Edward Snowden in prison?
That’s the question that I have been asking myself lately. Okay, perhaps shortly after his arrest, I thought that he deserved to be locked up, maybe for life. He was, after all, a contractor working for the National Security Agency. He took an oath that he would not disclose any classified information. He knew what…
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It’s not paranoia if they really are out to spy on you
President Obama says that no one is reading your email. Maybe not in my case because most of my email is not particularly interesting, but I sure as heck don’t like that the government is collecting huge amounts of metadata about me. Metadata (data about data) is really equally as interesting, if not more so,…