Arthur Hanson
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Law enforcement has already made the US the largest police/prison state by far with as many prisoners (2.2M+) as the police states of Russia and China combined with five times the US population. The only thing this war has succeeded at is blowing trillions of dollars, supporting dangerous cartels world wide, fueling more than a few civil wars, ruining tens of millions of lives and actually far from protecting us, creating far more crime than they prevent. All this occurs when the two most dangerous drugs alcohol and tobacco, are legal, in fact after a drug busts officers often go out drinking to celebrate. We should support Apple at all costs for to loose this battle is to further enlarge the world's biggest police state. If they couldn't learn from a total failure alcohol prohibition that created far more crime than it solved, how can we trust them with the keys to our digital lives. The police don't care to the point they extract so much money from cities in pay and pensions they threaten many cities with bankruptcy. So they create crime and bankruptcy and they tell us to trust them? I hope the Silicon Valley culture hand law enforcement a serious defeat in trying to take our last shred of privacy by being able to convert our phones into the world's best population monitoring tool. Next we should just let them implant semis in our body, with an RFID chip for starters, it's for our safety and they are here to help. I have no doubt many less intrusive and more effective ways can be developed to defeat terrorists by the Silicon Valley culture than law enforcement can come up with. I hope Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and others can come up with effective, cost efficient solutions to make this world safer. If they put there minds to it, I have no doubt they can. Making things more transparent and improving education/training world wide will be a start for only intelligent people that are well informed can make good decisions. Comments, thought, ideas and suggestions welcome and solicited. If we fail, the whole future of Silicon Valley could be put in danger. Silicon Valley is the Golden Goose for the US and we must protect it.
Critical, innovative, creative solutions are needed and in these areas the Silicon Valley culture has a proven track record. The Silicon Valley culture now has the opportunity to step up to the plate and show the world it is a problem solving and opportunity generating machine. I hope Tim Cook can not only defend freedom, but show the world Apple can create solutions along with the other leaders of Silicon Valley.
McAfee is right and we better prepare for cyber war and crime instead of wasting ourselves and resources on failing morals wars. He quoted a government study that in a serious large scale cyber war, 90% of us would be dead at the end of a year. With totally disrupted finance, power, water, sewage and every business almost shut down, all hell would break loose. Angela Merkel of Germany was/is no terrorist threat and they monitored her. If a staunch friend is not safe, who is?
"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither" Benjamin Franklin
Critical, innovative, creative solutions are needed and in these areas the Silicon Valley culture has a proven track record. The Silicon Valley culture now has the opportunity to step up to the plate and show the world it is a problem solving and opportunity generating machine. I hope Tim Cook can not only defend freedom, but show the world Apple can create solutions along with the other leaders of Silicon Valley.
McAfee is right and we better prepare for cyber war and crime instead of wasting ourselves and resources on failing morals wars. He quoted a government study that in a serious large scale cyber war, 90% of us would be dead at the end of a year. With totally disrupted finance, power, water, sewage and every business almost shut down, all hell would break loose. Angela Merkel of Germany was/is no terrorist threat and they monitored her. If a staunch friend is not safe, who is?
"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither" Benjamin Franklin
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