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Thank you for this link.

I wish I had not commented solely so I could burn a mod point to put this back up to the 5 points it deserves.

In Australia that might be the ticket, but here in the US they'll just find a useful program to cut. Last I knew the CIA had a legally undisclosed budgetary dispense, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if NSA falls under the same category. If they don't find a useful program to cut, they'll force the companies to pay for it, who will pass the costs on to us or risk losing capital from shareholders.

When dealing with an enemy like a government, one cannot assume that its resources are necessarily limited within the scope of the conflict so long as one is within the jurisdiction of that government. And when dealing with any but a "rogue" state in 2014, one cannot assume that simply leaving a border will necessarily provide a buffer, as nice as that might be. I'm pretty sure Ed Snowden will eventually get sold for something more valuable to Putin than egg in Obama's face.

And it is no longer just the playground of conspiracy theorists and lunatic fringe anarchists like myself to be at odds with the government. Since they have decided to violate the very documents which they all swear to on more massive scales than any other hypocrite in the history of the continent, I believe that the government has made itself the enemy of the American people, who I would prefer to no longer associate myself with, but again, simply leaving America would not put me far enough away from her.

when a word *is* misspelled -- guess I got a little emotional there.

The Wall Street Journal says they caputure innocent users' data

You know, I'm sure the WSJ did not fucking say that, because for all the money they make they at least spend some of it on a decent spell-check or even, gasp, a human editor. I mean holy motherfuck. Here I am combing the streets, looking for work. You're making hundreds, maybe thousands. maybe even tens of thousands of dollars per hour from the traffic on this site. You can't even spell capture? I mean, in google-chrome-stable it shows me even in this box right here when a word supposedly mis-spelled, though often it's just saying that it's not a word in the dictionary, such as motherfuck. Motherfucker, though, that passes.

And don't bother blaming the submitter since this part came after his quotation section. You fucking douche bags. Get it together. I don't care about beta; it's your site. But as a thinking person I'm offended that your hacker mentality has not permeated over into the literate part of your fucking brain: never stop improving, motherfucker. I wouldn't be half as good at writing code now if it weren't for the self-criticism and absolute discipline that my early days as a fiction writer instilled in me.

You fucking turd, seriously. When do we get to start rating the actual posts? Or is this whole feedback thing just a marketing technique for you, totally out of tune with Rob Malda's vision?

I would assume it's a lot easier for the authorities to catch them when they distribute over a network, even Tor.

I don't disagree with you, I think it's totally unnecessary, and I think we should hold them accountable: that is, in accordance to how much child pornography in that jurisdiction an outside source believes is occurring, preferably a reputable outside source like one of the apprehended, the law enforcement must have a significant increase in CONVICTIONS (not busts, which are not necessarily based on facts or evidence).

I need one of these dogs to sniff my ram packages from eBay and let me know next time I get one that's going to fail within 6 months. Son of a bitch. You know I never suspected the ram, I thought it was the hard drives failing me.

I think the cops probably need to do more old-school investigating and undercover work. I think that we need the death penalty for child molesters and life imprisonment for anyone caught in possession of or distributing child pornography. I think it'd be great if there were any tool under the law besides the second amendment with which to handle the chimo problem, but that only allows us to kill them when they're actively raping or attempting to rape our kids.

Does prohibition work? No. Does this government regularly over-reach? Yes. Can we trust law enforcement at any level to protect our children from bad people? Unfortunately, my life says no. So what is to be done? Well, we as developers and hackers and such could do a lot more of our own vigilante work, but it goes fundamentally against our beliefs in privacy and such. But I mean... what do you do with these people? I know, here's a great idea. Let's just deport them to Europe, anywhere, where they can be "recuperated" or whatever it is called. But it's not a thing that happens, rehabilitation. You're talking about people between the ages of 25 and 85 who are guilty of these crimes. This says to me that some of them get away with it for 60 odd fucking years unscathed. I'm sure there are plenty of liberal and conservatives who believe there are more "real" problems for the govenrment to focus on, but honestly, for my tax buck, you can take away everything and just put in place a Child Molestation and Pornography Eradication Bureau and I'll be completely satisfied. Throw away the army, the whole welfare state, and every law you claim that protects me. I only want this one authority to exist and I only want it to exist because I can't see any other way to stop these bastards besides using the collective violence that is the state but using it more efficiently and more regularly.

WTF? Are you retarded or just plain stupid?

I mean all of this was said by an Anonymous Coward, so take it with a bag of dogecoins and relax.

WELL SAID.