At 11:05 PM 3/7/2013, bbrewer wrote:

-------- Original Message -------- From: bbrewer <bbrewer@littledystopia.net> Sent: Thu Mar 07 23:01:56 EST 2013 To: Ted Smith <tedks@riseup.net> Subject: Re: Summary of where we are right now

Ted Smith <tedks@riseup.net> wrote:

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Saying "look, this thing was funded by the military" is just not useful. By that metric, virtually all computer science is a hidden backdoor. You have to be more specific.

How isn't it? 'We' now willingly place almost all of our communications, contacts, and finances, into one basket delivered by your local telco, cable co, satellite, or neighbors 'netgear'.

You should say '...we "willingly" place...' all those things through one service provider on one wire. I tried to get separate, real-copper-wire telephone service but there's no such animal in the town where I live. It is only available bundled together with tv and internet service and comes via coax, fiber optic, satellite service or some combination of the above. Which basically means the copper that was used years ago is now unused and growing verdigris where it hasn't been ripped out already. Consequently, I had to do something I hadn't wanted to otherwise, get a cellphone. Which was rooted in short order, fuck Carrier IQ and all the other third parties, there's a lot of improvement needed on that Android front.