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Thank you, but that is who I was speaking to.

 

Yes, i was not referring to any particular thread here. It was a general question about something i have been wondering about.....so to not skirt the concern again.......I do not think it makes much sense to deny the govt access, when there are bad hackers out there only wanting to be nosey or theive someone's information and make someone's life miserable.......I am not too worried about what the gov sees i am doing....It was a general question.

 

Any backdoor that the government can use, can be used by pretty much anyone else with ill intent...any vulnerabilty either intentional or accidentally introduced will eventually be found by a determined reverse engineering effort, and once it's found, every hacker on the planet will know about it if they know where to ask, and be able to use it as well.

Any known security vulnerability of any sort is absolutely inexcusable, and to build vulnerabilites in (i.e. backdoors) is even more ... inexcusably cretin. It's asking for trouble ... this is the exact opposite of what anyone competent would do! When you find a vulnerability you fuckin fix your shitty code. Like the diffie-hellman key exchange algorithm is "supposed" to be secure (probably comparable to RSA, though I admit the math is a bit over my head), based on the fact that finding the prime factorization of a large number is extremely difficult (you basically have to keep trying divisors until you eventually find one that divides it), and the product of two VERY large prime numbers is infeasible to factor in a reasonable time, well probably not before you die of old age, since it's only factors are the two huge primes multiplied together to generate the product. The problem is it was eventually discovered one day that many implementations were reusing a small handful of primes ... after a long facepalm what anyone competent should do is to fuckin fix that shit. I'm still not sure if we should trust anything using diffie-hellman even though most people should have fixed it. It's not the algorithm or the math that's flawed, its the fact that if an attacker knows that say 5 or 10 (or even a few thousand for that matter) different prime numbers are the most commonly used ... you no longer have to try every possible factor, you can just try those primes as divisors and the encryption is effectively broken. You need to use random primes, and never reuse the same ones over and over.

Speaking of math ... although I find discrete mathmatics and logic interesting, it gets old constructing hundreds of truth tables for stuff like ¬[(p∨¬q)∧r] → (¬p∧q)⊕¬r, and whether that's equivalent or not to another compound statement. If you make a mistake in one place the mistake screws up everything after that point, but I guess all math is like that.

 

but I am not writing in code...i am writing in simple dialogue, so what code do i have to fix?
I just avoid certain number combinations that do not agree with me or work for me.
People did that...not me.

 

The only thing I can do sensibly is to be aware of what is going on and protect myself as much as possible......also.....I keep my very private things to myself......do not write anything of importance to me on the computer really....and if I do in emails....they are only booby traps.....

 

Im just going to leave this here.. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuYQ4qUEfEI

 

and....I am not a robot...i am a human being that speaks from the heart......a robot will never teach a hummingbird its language......not really...it is impossible.

 

Nice!

 

I don't think i mentioned robots or hummingbirds lol ... humans program computers, which only do what they are told. They are basically glorified calculators, all computers can do is simple math, like the logic statement in the post I made. Some embedded CPUs don't even have hardware division instructions, meaning the programmer (or compiler) has to do basically "long division", basically repetitive subtraction counting the number of subtractions (the count of which becomes the quotient) until the number left is less than the divisor (which becomes the remainder, or the result of the modulo operator).

A computer will do what it's told, exactly. the computer is never wrong, if it does something unintended you can't blame it on the machine, it was just following the instructions you gave it after all.

 

No, you didn't, but I did. that is how i speak.....poetry....not mathematics....and no, I do not blame computers or machines at all.....only some people who ues them, as i said before with ill intent, as you stated.....I am against any ill intent, of course....politicians, included.

 

There cannot be fascism or anarchy , either...somewhere there has to be a happy medium.....and we just have not found it yet.
Too many people in power abuse just that....their power...I agree with that assessment.

 

Hilary Clinton is a fascist ... we need bernie sanders ... BAD! Clinton and Sanders' stance on internet freedom, privacy and net neutrality might as well be polar opposites. Interesting that they are both affiliated with the same political party (democrat).

Bernie Sanders is a true liberal, and maybe libertarian in some ways. Politics is not one dimensional.

 

I am 100% in for Bernie Sanders...i always have been. He is what this country desparately needs now.......desparately......but will we get him? I am sad as i sort of doubt it.....but I can always hope, anyway. i love that man from what i see so far.....as a human being.

I love to be wrong, in that we will get him for President.

 

turn signals and seatbelts are more like minor annoyances that you have to deal with to avoid a ticket, as opposed to the luxuries of modern cars. granted, i appreciate turn signals on other cars, but they don't do much for me on my own.

i actually prefer manual transmissions. they satisfy my inner control freak, i think.

 

i didn't know a car without turn signals was street legal ...

 

government should raise minimum wage to $15/hr and make everyone take a money managing class. will definitely improve the economy

 

I think you could still understand how the assertions may be relevant to you, because if you look at it from a certain sense, you are writing in "code". It's just that it's getting translated and filtered a bunch.

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<p>I just avoid certain number combinations that do not agree with me or work for me.</p>
<p>People did that...not me.</p>

					
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To even have strong opinions on social issues that don't clearly and directly effect you in an extremely significant way, shows that you're near incapable of independent thought.

 

raising minimum wage generally results in higher unemployment because setting a price floor above the equilibrium price creates a surplus of labor, i.e. unemployment. But then again, higher unemplyment keeps inflation rates low.

IIRC, New York recently raised minimum wage to $15/hr