Posts Tagged ‘ surveillance ’

Thomas Jefferson: Crypto-Rebel?

Dec 16th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Encryption is the process of coding and decoding information to ensure its privacy. Encryption means that law enforcement and national security are losing surveillance capabilities, like wiretapping, upon which they have depended for decades. Government can still access well-encrypted communication, but they cannot decipher it into useful information; secure emails ...read more

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Welcome to the Machine, Part II

Feb 27th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
Welcome my son, Welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's all right -- we told you what to dream… -- Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine (Wish You Were Here, 1975) There’s this friend of mine… He works in the financial industry, lives in a well-appointed, relatively new home in an idyllic suburb of ...read more

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Welcome to the Machine, Part I

Feb 14th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
"Welcome my son, Welcome to the machine. Where have you been? It's all right -- we know where you've been... -- Pink Floyd, "Welcome to the Machine" (1975) For prophetic visions of where we're headed, forget the economists, philosophers, historians, politicos -- and especially climatologists (30 years ago, they predicted an impending ice age, for ...read more

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