Indeed. People that have not mastered their emotions have no business leading anything.

They are not. There is just this propaganda-induced fantasy, that "the law" and those enforcing it using violence are somehow better and are somehow on the side of "good". It is amply clear from history and current observation that this is not the case.

Or even worse: Not saying anything at all! We really and urgently need the technology to mind-read!

Governments do not deserve trust. They are acting like pathological liars, thieves and psychopaths, all rolled into one. Why else would they insist on ever expanding their power and surveillance infrastructure. They are afraid of the population, because deep down all these government actors know where true evil can be found, namely in them. They have a deep existential fear that those governed could realize the true nature of those doing the governing.

Indeed. And incidentally, any halfway smart person does not trust their government these days, but sees what is really going on: greed, stupidity, megalomania, fear of a population that may have its own ideas, etc. Don't remember who said it first, but those in power have indeed banded together against those that they are supposedly accountable to.

The whole mind-set is paranoid and fascist. And it is getting stronger. The last time this happened, we had a global catastrophe, namely WWII, that nearly managed to wipe the human race out in its cold-war follow-up. This time, it will be global fascism, so nobody will be able to end it prematurely. The good news is that fascism eventually always collapses, as it cannot sustain a reasonable economy (nobody but the fanatics is motivates, so everything slowly goes to shit). Eventually people starve and everything collapses.The bad news is that this can take a century or longer.

Fascism is on the raise, again. The US is leading this charge towards doom though.

As the IPsec RFC was finalized by an NSA employee alone, this is very, very likely. They just had not learned how to camouflage their actions properly. The sabotage by making it very complex to implement and configure right, and by including multiple insecure options that you can easily select by accident, is very, very obvious in retrospect. The other aspect is that then their agents could kill other efforts by saying "but we have IPsec".

It is this type of sabotage that slowly erodes society. At some point, nobody trusts anything anymore and that is it for civilization. These people are vastly more dangerous than any religious fanatics.

Decent people do not do this, even if it is legal. The hiring criteria for cops have reflected that for a long time now.

Embrace and extend. The embracing has been completed, now they extend to have it do everything.

Naa, their software will never be good, they do not have what it takes. On the other hand, a lot of really bad software is successful, just look at windows.

Thanks and fuck you too.

Interesting timing, isn't it?

Stop the political BS. There was no need for change. And this abomination makes things worse not better anyways.

Indeed. And that is the reason systemd is a failed approach. When things need to be complicated, sane designers go back and reconsider their architecture. The systemd folks did not.

You are ignoring his concerns. Typical propaganda tactics.