I disagree. Let's use all our skills and avenues, not just some of them.
> We succumb to terror pushing away meaningless bits of code on Github as a crypto projects in response.
That is a subjective opinion. Email itself is meaningless bits of code. You want us to stop using email altogether? What about the web? Why are you even posting on this forum so?
> Some projects flourish sure but the same forces that profit off the court-less killings of others are collating your data, your pet projects. Harvesting your stolen info out of botnets.
That is alarmist hyperbole.
> Giving you a salary for technician work keeping infrastructure ticking.
Enough enabling the beastly mess that is privatized 'national' security. The payments to infrastructure providing companies for data access. The kidnapping/torture/drone fire of others when technological routes don't work.
If you have a career with Dell, AT&T, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, and many others, start making demands or make resumes. Stop being complicit.
Dell? A computer hardware device assembler? What on earth are you on about. You appear to think that the entire info-tech infrastructure, companies and "wage-slaves" alike are complicit in all this. Computers are a kind of tool, you can use them for beneficial, neutral or nefarious means. Let's keep the spotlight where it is needed -- on the secrest out-of-control governmental surveillance organs of various nation states.
In short. Think a bit before you post and spare us the melodrama.
> Dell? A computer hardware device assembler? What on earth are you on about. You appear to think that the entire info-tech infrastructure, companies and "wage-slaves" alike are complicit in all this.
"Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began downloading documents describing the U.S. government's electronic spying programs while he was working for Dell Inc in April 2012, almost a year earlier than previously reported, according to U.S. officials and other sources familiar with the matter.
David Frink, a spokesman for Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, declined to comment on any aspect of Snowden's employment with the company, saying Dell's "customer" - presumably the NSA - had asked Dell not to talk publicly about him.[1]"
That's a completely new one on me. I seem to stand corrected on the Dell issue (could someone expand on this?) -- but I still think you are casting your net a bit wide. I apologize for the heaping pile of denigration as you call it but maybe tone it down a bit and take the time to show (and link) in more detail why you are saying what you are saying, ok?
"Some projects flourish sure but the same forces that profit off the court-less killings of others are collating your data, your pet projects. Harvesting your stolen info out of botnets."
> That is alarmist hyperbole.
Those were two direct references, the first being SAIC with their military drone[1] and domestic '___domain awareness center[2]' operations. The second being Endgame Systems and their monetization of botnet data/malware[3].
> Let's keep the spotlight where it is needed -- on the secrest out-of-control governmental surveillance organs of various nation states.
I disagree. Let's use all our skills and avenues, not just some of them.
> We succumb to terror pushing away meaningless bits of code on Github as a crypto projects in response.
That is a subjective opinion. Email itself is meaningless bits of code. You want us to stop using email altogether? What about the web? Why are you even posting on this forum so?
> Some projects flourish sure but the same forces that profit off the court-less killings of others are collating your data, your pet projects. Harvesting your stolen info out of botnets.
That is alarmist hyperbole.
> Giving you a salary for technician work keeping infrastructure ticking. Enough enabling the beastly mess that is privatized 'national' security. The payments to infrastructure providing companies for data access. The kidnapping/torture/drone fire of others when technological routes don't work. If you have a career with Dell, AT&T, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, and many others, start making demands or make resumes. Stop being complicit.
Dell? A computer hardware device assembler? What on earth are you on about. You appear to think that the entire info-tech infrastructure, companies and "wage-slaves" alike are complicit in all this. Computers are a kind of tool, you can use them for beneficial, neutral or nefarious means. Let's keep the spotlight where it is needed -- on the secrest out-of-control governmental surveillance organs of various nation states.
In short. Think a bit before you post and spare us the melodrama.