Computers are designed that in-order to secure them you need a
   multi-million dollar budget. Think I said this before. The only
   entities with the economy of scale to accomplish this are wealthy
   governments and multinational corporations.
   Obviously in terms of relative security:
   Xen
   KVM / Virtualbox
   OpenVZ / Jails
   BSD-type OSes
   Windows 10
   Linux-type OSes
   Windows NT
   Windows on DOS
   You live in a world where after the Morris worm, everyone thought they
   should move data onto computers.
   The NSA doesn't have wiretap everything, they just have to hack the
   hackers who hack and amass all sorts of data.
   It's hard to avoid coming to certain conclusions when the entire civil
   liberty movement so mismanaged their efforts that in response to
   Snowden the only thing that happened is that our phone companies are
   required to store metadata instead the of the NSA (although I'm sure
   the NSA keeps a backup). I don't know why the government acted as if
   Snowden was a disaster. The government managed the response to Snowden
   so well that it becomes hard to conclude that top secret information is
   the world ender that it is claimed to be. Hillary Clinton claims that
   top secret information is actually news articles or something.
   I'd expect the ACLU to have some friendly reporters to speak on their
   behalf.
   Or to be able to assemble what Ryan Shapiro is accused of, a mosaic.
   It is a real mystery. I just... can't... fathom... so... difficult...
   I'd never imagine the ACLU would say that due process should be
   withheld in a single case.
   Big mystery.
   I don't see the big deal about this Russia investigation, as far as I
   can see, people can be literally told tomorrow's winning lotto numbers,
   and they would refuse to buy a ticket because they don't like the
   information. People are investing huge amount of time and energy to
   projects which don't accomplish anything. This device is libre! "What
   does that solve?" It is libre! "What does it do?" The same things, but
   not as many of them.
   Just to be clear, the major issues of the day are (in my favored
   order):
   1. Zero-day stockpiles. (cyber munitions shouldn't be used against
   enemies of the state, but to protect citizens)
   2. Mass surveillance.
   3. Public-private sector collusion.
   The issues that GPL solves are:
   1. I'm not contributing this code for free so others can profit off of
   it.
   The issues that Tor solves are:
   1. Preventing people without top secret clearances from finding out
   what you're doing.
   The issues that non-profits solves are:
   1. Reducing tax payment by twenty cents for every dollar spent.
   You people are so incredibly misinformed and insistent on incorrect
   information, it is unbelievable. It is hard to conclude anything but
   that everyone is on a make-work project to look like they are doing a
   good job, but everything stays the same.
   There is no need for disinformation, for some reasons the Russians too
   are terrified of reality.