Well, how about spending tax money for public schools? Because it matters a lot less if you don't have to cope with tuition fees and other oligarch bullshit.

And while we're at it, how about enacting a decent social and healthcare system, where you don't have to drown in debts just because somebody in your family needed a cure or lost its job?

"Liberal" Bias? No. They're just more centrist.

It's like calling Hillary Clinton "Liberal", where she is clearly Authoritarian: https://www.politicalcompass.o...

If you want backdoors, you undermine your security. And this is asymmetric. Because the security of your hospitals, power plants, electrical grid, communications infrastructure, emergency response, water treatment plants, military(!) and so on, will also be subverted. In contrast, any adversaries probably don't care about infrastructure because they don't run any.

Basically what these morons are saying is "we want to open our whole infrastructure to abuse by criminals, terrorists and other adversaries".

Oh yeah? Is that some kind of traditional wisdom handed down from your forefathers in the USA?

Because that's not what's expected in the rest of the world.

Printed plastic guns fall under the precisely the same legislation as other guns (depending on their type): Illegal to print and own unless you have a license for the type of gun.

The files on how to make them are perfectly legal.

Where people hacking your voting machines within 90 minutes is apparently only a conspiracy theory:
http://fortune.com/2017/07/31/...

I guess you believe in the easter bunny and the security of E-Voting?

Coming from a country with a high percentage of guns per capita, but with a very low homicide rate, I can give you a hint: We have rifles, not handguns. And that is true for most of the countries with similar profiles: Canada, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Iceland, Germany, New Zealand, Finland.

This might not be the reason for less homicides, but there is probably some underlying factor influencing both, homicides and handgun proliferation.

So you might really want to start looking into that: Why do your people want to have handguns?

This is exactly using technology for something it is completely unsuited.

Facial recognition is useful as second or third-factor authentication of a small and clearly defined user base. Like checking the face of a person wanting to pass a security door whilst the same person is in possession of a RFID badge. Not only do you match against a smallish set of people who "shall pass", but against the very small set of people who may pass with that specific RFID badge, exactly one, that is. And in this case, security is immensely increased by facial recognition.

You want one, you got one. It's not a problem to found or even to buy a US company who can do it.

God is a crazy woman.
http://www.principiadiscordia....

Facebook etc will not have your fingerprint. There are may different biometric models, but they don't actually store a copy of your fingerprint and then check the whorls against your thumb.

For example, a model may use a hash of key points in the thumbprint and that hash is used in a challenge/response from the server. A model may use the biometrics to generate a derived key or to unlock a local key store.

Any website or OS worth their salt (pun intended) doesn't store your password, they store a salted hash of your password and its the hash you authenticate with, not the actual password. Same concept here.

Microsoft already proved it with their racist AI that they're able, but now they've gotten better, their bots can now insult everyone!

In fact, I was running such a bot a few years back, modeled after Captain haddock

The first 6 digits are the BIN range which identify the Card Type (first digit) and Issuing Bank (rest of the BIN). Those are not (by themselves) sensitive. The PCI specification states that the first 6 and last 4 digits of a PAN may be in the clear i.e. 5555 43** **** 3232 and that this has a difficulty of being guesses of 10^6 (due to Luhn check).

As long as the middle 6 are not exposed, then first 6/last 4 isn't a 'huge' concern from a card compromise perspective. It is however, a large risk from a social engineering perspective. An attacker could answer certain security questions and/or pretend to be someone who legitimately has that kind of information and convince people to think they are an appropriate organization to share further information with.

10 points for reference.

MCGA FTW!!!