No the legal authority required is not the issue. The issue is that building a backdoor is a bad idea. If you have one way into a cryptosystem and add a backdoor you now have two ways into a cryptosy… (View Post)

It's worse than merely crazy. This is memeing about ethnic cleansing. It aims to normalise things that should be unacceptable to any decent person. (View Post)

It's not dislike. He covets Canada. As to why, look at a map of the North Pole and then imagine the US and Russia are going to divide the area inside the Arctic Circle up between them for the fossil … (View Post)

More importantly Trump wants the President to be in control of independent federal agencies like the FEC & FCC. How is the US to have a free and fair federal election ever again if Trump gets to … (View Post)

No we fucking don't. That's dangerous, stupid, and ultimately treacherous. (View Post)