Posts by yacc143@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #B4l2bEKHzPHz5ZPPTE by yacc143@mastodon.social
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       @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon That's why we call potted plants “Todeskandidaten” (death row inmates) when we buy them.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4zic1bfgNSmDW2WXo by yacc143@mastodon.social
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       @RealJournalism Please note, #Trump did not only announce that he plans to commit war crimes; strictly speaking, these kinds of threats are already a war crime.And I know American exceptionalism, yada yada, the USA does not recognize war crimes committed by Americans.Cough, actually that arms universal jurisdiction on war crimes if the home country of the war criminal refuses to prosecute.So for the time, the Americans can skate on; nobody wants to piss off the USA today. In a decade?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5DlBIXFeb3gyeMIE4 by yacc143@mastodon.social
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       @eff But that's literally incompatible with a ton of US laws. The US surveillance state likes the US population vulnerable to the American siloviki.Starting from “lawful interception” (what is lawful? What the government says, especially with checks and balances as suppressed as the #GOP has managed to suppress them), to the full buffet of intelligence laws.It worked in the Cold War, when both sides used at least somewhat different technology, but today?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5DlBItwIFCs70yPaa by yacc143@mastodon.social
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       Today any move to make the technology easier to intercept against the “enemy” or “criminals” (yes, that includes these bad pedophiles, not the good pedophiles in the White House) also weakens the same technology used by normal citizens and normal businesses.It's basically an impossible requirement: "Make the safe impenetrable, but build in an undetectable backdoor that only the 'good guys'—whose definition can be changed at a whim—can easily access.”