One Laptop Per Terrorist

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 3/28/15, Juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems to me that it's rather easy for terrorists to create simple
> hardware for at least secure text messaging (or more).

I agree that the idea is relatively straightforward in principle, for
someone with enough soldering ability. For any group-buy, a
trustworthy manufacturer/ lead persons, and some method of
hand-to-hand distribution would be required for the paranoid (and
todays paranoiacs have turned out to be tomorrow's wise-in-hindsight
non-crackpots over the last few decades).

But, as has been said many times before here, perhaps even by you Mr
Juan :), is that some of us seriously doubt whether any 'disruptive'
technology can ever solve a social structure, power imbalance, or
power structure abuse problem.

a) Can a small group unite behind a cause in a fundamentally egalitarian way,
and b) is there such a cause that exists, for the small group to unite
behind, which is a significant enough cause to engage the attention
and will of the greater body of our society?

The real problem IMEHO (in my extremely high opinion) is The People
(TM) (GMBH) (C) (R) (PTY) (LTD) failing to grasp their own situation,
failing to hold to principles beyond satisfying the human passions,
and fundamentally failing to give a shit beyond themselves or possibly
their family.

Frankly, humans are a lost cause and will always sell their souls for
not only temporary convenience, but for the avoidance of perceived
short or medium term pain. Readers of this email excepted of course :D

> The recipe goes something like this :
...
> I'm guessing that any real 'spies' out there have been using something
> like this for a while.

Your guess is the same as mine.

Zenaan