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Comment Re:Identity Theft (Score 1) 74

So, pretty clearly, there is a huge problem with SSNs being used in the USA as both identifier and authenticator. And this has been know for years, and many people have suffered as a result of this really really stupid system, whose flaws are obvious to everyone using the system.

So how long will it take to get something changed?

Comment Re:Even better idea: (Score 1) 135

He'll be schmoozing with the various copyright cartel lobbyists, who'll be blowing smoke up his arse and whispering sweet little lies in his ears.

Recompense will come in the "you scratch our backs, we'll scratch yours" format at some point in the future. That's the way it usually worls: 'favours' for 'favours'.

Comment Re:Another case of 'same, but with a computer' (Score 1) 216

Inddeed. "Threat to the national security" was recently used to quash an investigation into corruption and bribery involved in a deal with Saudi Arabia. Important to have the Saudi royal family on your side, apparently. More important than the law or justice; so the "National Security" card was played and everything got dropped.

This move is about stopping people like Edward Snowden. It what we've come to expect from the Britsh State.

Meanwhile, the government gets up to whatever the hell it likes under the utterly, utterly false boilerplate defence that “all of GCHQ’s work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorized, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight.”

We live in a country that's little changed from the 18th century in terms of democracy and accountability.

Comment Re:They're not trolls (Score 1) 144

Yep.

Trolls are provocateurs.
There is no proper name for people who just spew bile and hatred.

Because the behaviour of a troll is more nuanced, and the activities of someone engaging in abuse is not, and the latter has no 'internet name' (catchy, unique, widely known) people have misappropriated the word "troll".

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