The choice is not for or against leaks, in any meaningful sense, though both sides are trying to make it so. Information leaks will happen, and they will happen more as technology advances. People do not understand the baroque and constantly shifting security implications of their actions, and they will be duped. National cybersecurity ( Read more... )

Originally posted to the two local Burner email lists. I have more to say on the subject, but not quite yet.I got here in 2005, and it didn't take me long to pick up on the distrust of Atomic. I initially wrote it off as culture clash and gossip. As my understanding has deepened, so has my cynicism, and today does not lift it. Five years is not ( Read more... )

Many people have a fixation on one specific vision of their future. Others, with greater wisdom and lesser morals, see these situations and exploit them. From a freshwater-pr0n's locked journal entry, quoted with permission:
Overheard at the cafe today ( Read more... )

You now have a government that lies to you, spies on you, commits attrocities in your name, and fails to protect you from known dangers.

Zacarias Moussaoui, at his conviction, shouted "America, you lost". He was right, but for reasons a loon like he could hardly suspect (though his supposed master, Osama, just might have). We've lost what it ( Read more... )

Almost a year ago, I went to my friend Rhie's birthday party down at Campbell's Hole. The cops showed up, and gave me a ticket for Alcohol in the Park, for sitting next to somebody's empty. I've been fighting to get it fixed since then. I missed my original court date (my fault), and so had to pay the full amount of the fine. I was then given ( Read more... )

Since he doesn't want the truth to come out, we should be making up vicious rumor about the court proceedings. Because as far as we're allowed to know, it's true:

1. Judge Punch wasn't mad at Magdalen when he started asking about the pictures. He was titilated; it was only when he started to realize his dirty fantasies weren't true that he got ( Read more... )

Originally posted by Modemac on subgenius@yahoogroups.com:
Okay, tonight I received word that the update to Rachel Bevilacqua (Magdalen)'s case can be made public ( Read more... )

A New York judge has taken Mary Magdalen's son from her, after seeing pictures of her at 7X-Day that inflamed his religeous sensibilities.

Done anything a judge might consider blasphemous in a semi-private setting lately? Have a custody agreement? THIS COULD BE YOU. Scared? So am I. Welcome to America, where you're free to do anything a judge ( Read more... )

Governments will resist this message. But their power is dependent on the obedience of the citizenry. When that is withdrawn, governments are helpless.

Courtney Love makes sense about the real threat of music piracy.