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Beware Trading Privacy for Convenience
Authored by: squib on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 10:03 AM EDT
How did people react when we came off the 'gold standard'? We then had to use
little bits of paper with a serial numbers printed in opposite corners. The
authorities could use these numbers to track down people that had unlawful
liberated any notes from banks, stage coaches, etc.

Of course no one saw, that as serial numbers were just numbers, the authorities
could just go on printing more and more... and more. I have heard it said, that
there are enough dollar bills now to make a pile that reaches to the moon and
back. Technological advances in finance have unseen come backs.

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Beware Trading Privacy for [Protection from Tornadoes?]
Authored by: alanjshea on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 09:17 PM EDT
Some thoughts I've recently had about this:

Look at it this way: How much of your privacy would you trade if the government
promised to protect you from tornadoes?

Because the way I see it, that's only slightly less than how much they will
ultimately be able to do to protect you from terrorists. The terrorists will
always come up with a new way to terrorize, meanwhile the government is still
protecting us against that last method.

Our response to terrorism should be similar to our response to tornadoes. Both
events can have horrible consequences, cause great loss of life and property,
and both are dealt with at a federal level (at least as far as the National
Weather Service is concerned, along with the National Tornado center in Norman,
OK).

Since we cannot control tornadoes we do the best we can to watch for
contributing weather, put out warnings, respond to sightings, and engage in
disaster relief and recovery.

The last point is I think the most important. Having a first responder plan for
any disaster is the most important. It applies to any disaster and says to the
terrorists, we will not be terrorized.

As far as looking for signs to thwart terrorists, the best info has always come
from human intelligence, not connecting dots with telephones and emails, because
the terrorists know not to use those methods any more.

The "obvious" dots that could have been connected using electronic
intelligence always appear to have been missed when terrorists attack.

The greatest danger of this "information gathering" is that it will be
abused by those in power against their own people. If the capability is there it
will be abused. It always is.

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Convenience
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 06:42 PM EDT
Trading anything for convinience is not good, take system adminstration for
example. If it's more convenient for the administrator, it's less secure
overall. Think about it easier is not usually better in some area.

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