Can you cite the studies you mention? This sounds like an interesting read.

What does that mean? I can't find an explanation anywhere.

Some people like Chromium, the open source version of Chrome. The only reason I stick with that rather than Firefox is that I much prefer the interface for Chromium's ScriptSafe over Firefox's NoScript.

Except that Ford Motors was around long before Gerald Ford became president.

So wait, is Blackphone open source? I'm not seeing anything indicating that. You state that you can't trust any other device, because it's closed source, but...

Maybe I'm missing something here.

On the site, it asks "Who to fund?" and gives the options "Whatever Helps", "Democrats Only", and "Republicans Only".

Their FAQ states: "In 2014, our objective is to win seats on the basis of reform, and to show that we can win seats on the basis of reform. We don’t see any independent candidates on the federal level who could win this election cycle. Spending our donors money to support independent candidates doesn’t advance our objective."

Whoa whoa whoa... what? Supporting candidates who have advocated election and campaign finance reform as part of their agenda "doesn't advance our objective"?

Well, boy, I certainly feel better about funding this now!

"The U.S. Department of Treasury estimated that in 2011 the Caribbean Banking Centers, which include Bahamas ...held almost $2 trillion dollars in United States debt." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I bet there were some pretty juicy tidbits swept up in that massive dragnet. I certainly believe that tax evaders are a lot more of an actual threat to the US than the terrorism "boogeyman". So where are our prosecutions on this crap?

The answer is that there never will be. All this mass-surveillance will never actually be used to our benefit, only as a means enforcing the status quo for the powers that be.

"Fall into the wrong hands"? They've already got their hands in the cookie jar. Snowden showed just how far the government has sunk their claws into telecom corporations. It's not a matter of "who controls it", because as far as I'm concerned it's compromised from conception. The ability shouldn't exist PERIOD.

Hyperbole much?

Illinois gun laws.

Top 50 cities with highest murder rates.

But it's okay to blow things out of proportion and ignore statistics when you're trying to push an agenda.

Sorry I didn't see this notice until just now, seems that the comment notifications were broken for me. Here's some information on IBM's involvement in World War II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II

'His grand design for 1943 was a locator file in which would appear a Hollerith alphabetic punch card for each evacuee. These cards were to include standard demographic information about age, sex, education, occupation, family size, medical history, criminal record, and RC location. However, additional data categories about links to Japan were also maintained, such as years of residence in Japan and the extent of education received there... The punch card project was so extensive and immediate that the War Relocation Authority subcontracted the function to IBM.'

"The company recommended that ATM operators provide better physical security for the computers controlling the machines, lock down BIOS or system hard drives, deploy lock-down software or upgrade to a supported operating system."

Really? This stuff isn't being done to begin with?

People ask why I would ever want to run a Tor exit node, this is a perfect example.

They also had their hand in the pot for the Japanese internment camps in the US.

Even the ones of the programming variety? :-P