Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

figmentPez

figmentPez

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RFKjr has as much as $1.2 million in credit card debt

“ 'He has a lot of income, so I don’t even know why you’d have all that debt if you have that much income,' said Carolyn McClanahan, a certified financial planner "
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" Because the disclosures are essentially snapshots, it’s not clear if he pays off his balances in full each month, experts say. "

So, either this guy is regularly spending $600,000 to $1,200,000 a month on his credit cards, or he's floating a lot of high interest debt, and we're supposed to trust this guy to responsibly run a federal agency? I wouldn't trust him to run a lemonade stand.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

There's a question of whether impeachment can even be performed any longer, since according to SCOTUS a sitting president can't be prosecuted for his actions.

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

PatrThom said:
Maybe now that their "We need a back door that only good guys can use" has been compromised, it will finally show them that including such a back door fundamentally renders encryption useless ha ha who am I kidding they will see no such thing.
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"Oh, that's only going to happen in the USA. We won't have that problem." -- UK, probably.
www.techspot.com

UK government orders Apple to open a backdoor into all encrypted iCloud accounts

The British government has ordered Apple to allow blanket access to user data stored online. The "technical capability notice" demands a backdoor into its encrypted iCloud services,...
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Please note that this is not what you probably think it is. This is not the UK government telling Apple they need to open a backdoor for all encrypted UK iCloud accounts. No, no, no. This is the UK telling Apple that if they want to continue operating in the UK, they have to create a back door for the UK government to be able to access the contents of users located EVERYWHERE in the world. All encrypted iCloud data must be backdoored for the UK, everywhere in the world, no exceptions. Now I'm no lawyer, but putting aside for the moment all questions about the efficacy/feasibility of such an undertaking, it seems to me that this is something Apple simply wouldn't be able to do without breaking the law of some other country where they operate in the process.

--Patrick
 
Sara_2814

Sara_2814

PatrThom said:
"Oh, that's only going to happen in the USA. We won't have that problem." -- UK, probably.
www.techspot.com

UK government orders Apple to open a backdoor into all encrypted iCloud accounts

The British government has ordered Apple to allow blanket access to user data stored online. The "technical capability notice" demands a backdoor into its encrypted iCloud services,...
www.techspot.com www.techspot.com
Please note that this is not what you probably think it is. This is not the UK government telling Apple they need to open a backdoor for all encrypted UK iCloud accounts. No, no, no. This is the UK telling Apple that if they want to continue operating in the UK, they have to create a back door for the UK government to be able to access the contents of users located EVERYWHERE in the world. All encrypted iCloud data must be backdoored for the UK, everywhere in the world, no exceptions. Now I'm no lawyer, but putting aside for the moment all questions about the efficacy/feasibility of such an undertaking, it seems to me that this is something Apple simply wouldn't be able to do without breaking the law of some other country where they operate in the process.

--Patrick
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Does the UK not realize that Apple already had this fight with the US government and won? They've already practiced and perfected their arguments for potential court cases. Security and privacy have become their big selling points, so I don't see Apple folding--I think they'd give up the UK market first. As far as other countries, I would hope the EU would side with Apple on this since government backdoors is arguably a human rights violation, let alone a major security risk.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Krisken said:
Other than McConnel hates to give up power? Not much.

I didn't say it was a good chance, just that it was the only chance.
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If anything, Johnson is worse than McConnell. Impeachment is meaningless, toothless, laughable and pathetic. All it will do is make people think they're doing something when they're not accomplishing anything. If Impeachment was anything other than a waste of time, it'd have definitely worked by the second time already, if not the first.
 
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Bubble181

Bubble181

Impeachment can only work if people in Congress care about the good of the country and society, not just about their party and their power.
Even in the Watergate era, Trump would have been removed from power.
 
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