Check the "am I reading bullshit on the internet meter".

1) Is this plausible? No, not financially, or politically.
2) Does this link to credible sources? No, it links to nothing.

When someone says something implausible, and doesn't source it on the internet, it's probably not true.

People in the US wouldn't put up with it either. Hell, they don't even do this is Israel. This "article" is entirely unsourced bullshit.

I can't think of a faster way to shut down New York City. The traffic is always so bad you can't drive, so everyone takes the subway to work, home, grocery shopping... There is no way people would wait in line to be scanned, if they did you'd have millions of people who suddenly had 1+ hours added to their already long commute, you would make traffic worse, so the delay would affect everyone whether they drove or took the train.

You don't even have to go through a metal detector to get on the subway - maybe they'll start that first. A part of me isn't even opposed to metal detectors on subways (besides the delay it would cause), because disarming criminals on subways would probably cut down on other crimes, and make subways safer for women, and people carrying cash or laptops (so long as they don't make you take your laptop out, or show if you're carrying something valuable).

There is no way they're going to use body scanners in places they don't even use metal detectors now.

You'll want faster speed to and from your file server.

My guess is not for IT.

You want to host the web server for a 20 person NGO in house? What will the bandwidth cost? How will that handle high load because of a highly publicized event? Hosting the web sever in house is will be a catastrophic failure. Get a VPS, then you won't have to worry about bandwidth.

Email - there are tons of decent email hosting companies, GMail, Rackspace, LuxSci, etc, depending on your budget (Rackspace is the cheapest, LuxSci is the nicest). You want to use cloud email, in house email is too big of a headace for 20 people. If you're worried about security LuxSci email is HIPAA compliant.

You can either get a Microsoft AD server, or use Linux. Desktops are better than laptops for in the office, they're harder to steal and/or misplace, cheaper to repair or upgrade, and they last longer. If you use Windows, you'll have to buy a decent antivirus, but you should be able to find everything else Open Source.

Get a decent router, cisco small business routers are nice, they don't crash like cheap routers do.

Ubuntu could release new and simple updates/upgrades regularly, and every few years, release a new version of ubuntu. Who would want to install then update when the most recent live disk is from 10 years ago? Ubuntu could get rid of incremental releases, and just release the LTS versions, then push updates and give users a choice "security updates only", "security updates and minor bug fixes" or "security, functionality, and major bug fixes - may be less stable".

We should copyright copyrighting, then no one else will be able to do it.

I think $20 would do the trick, or a larger bribe...

If my boss or other employee who had sensitive data called me (the IT person) and said they'd just been mugged, their personal cell phone they use for business purposes was stolen, and they had reason to suspect the mugging may be for the purpose of corporate espionage, I'd thank god for the remote wipe feature, and I'd use it while resetting all of their passwords (can we get that on flash drives too please?)

There are times when the feature would be appropriate and useful, so I don't think the solution is technical. The solution is using the feature responsibly, and with the consent of the phone's owner. If you intend to use it when they leave the company, you should explain that before connecting the phone to the corporate email server, and make sure they understand. Otherwise you should never use the feature without the informed consent of the phones owner, unless they aren't capable of giving consent (such as if they were dead, in a coma, kidnapped, etc.) People who use the feature irresponsibly are the problem, not the feature its self.

What the fuck? A government checking the code it runs on computers with sensitive data is "national socialist"? You think the United States government doesn't do this on CIA and DOD computers? Or are you a nut against building roads?

We're talking about doing this only for government computers used for sensitive government data.

So right! You could just save yourself $5000 and run Linux.

It was the fire department from the next town over, where the people are smart enough to pay for a fire department. I bet that guy spent plenty of time going on about the stupid democrats in the next town over who pay higher taxes so they have a fire department. Well I guess he found out the hard way why they don't mind their taxes paying for a fire department in that town. Why should the good people of the next town over pay for nearby towns who aren't willing to set up their own fire departments, volunteer or otherwise?

If you have record of it, the question is moot. The government has every right to issue a warrant to confiscate every physical object from you think is evidence (like your written copy of the encryption key). What they can't do is try to force you reveal the contents of your mind against your will. Where you hid the written copy of the encryption key is also protected by the 5th, so the government will have to find it without your help.

It's about how the state would force you to give up the information not whether the state has a right to that information. Breaking down your door isn't a big deal, however torturing someone to force them to revile a password is. The state is forbidden from trying to force a suspect to reveal the contents of their mind, because of how the state would have to force information from a person, not because of whether or not the state should be able to use that information.