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Comment Re:Skype? (Score 2) 377

by chance_encounter on Friday May 04, 2012 @05:21PM (#39896157) Attached to: FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites — Now

It's likely there has always been a backdoor to Skype. The Austrian government seems to claim that tapping Skype is not a problem. This article is from 2008: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Speculation-over-back-door-in-Skype-736607.html

Submission + - Is Scientific Consensus a Threat to Democracy? (ft.com)

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on Thursday June 14, 2007 @01:21PM

chance_encounter writes: "President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus has published an article in the Financial Times in which he seems to equate the current global warming debate with totalitarian thought control: "The dictates of political correctness are strict and only one permitted truth, not for the first time in human history, is imposed on us. Everything else is denounced." He goes on to state: "The scientists should help us and take into consideration the political effects of their scientific opinions. They have an obligation to declare their political and value assumptions and how much they have affected their selection and interpretation of scientific evidence." At the end of the article he proposes several suggestions to improve the global climate debate, including this point: "Let us resist the politicisation of science and oppose the term "scientific consensus," which is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority.""

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