Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Police State

What was an FBI agent doing with a million unique IDs for Apple devices doing on his laptop? Apparently the agent had 12 million iTunes account IDs. What is an FBI agent doing with 12 million iTunes IDs? Did the FBI hack Apple, or did Apple give them to the FBI?

The DOJ sued a California library for loaning out e-readers because e-readers cannot be used by the blind. No good deed goes unpunished by government.

I'm not sold on the assertion that networked cars would be good for safety.  They would breed a new kind of danger. If ordered to the police station while we were inside, they would turn us into prisoners in our own cars. If ordered to the police station while we were not inside, they would abandon us, possibly in times of need. Our cars would respond to the whims of our rulers instead of our needs. I find that very dangerous. There's far better ways to improve safety starting with privatizing roads.

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