[liberationtech] [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

[Kyle Maxwell]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
<ei8fdb at ei8fdb.org> wrote:
> My issue is with - "Hacking" is bad when people do it. It's ok when the government do it.

To play devil's advocate for a moment: isn't that true for a lot of
things? The State is, in general, very jealous about its monopoly on
things like violence and taxation, and (modulo anarchists, many of
whom I love and respect) the majority of people are okay with those
things.

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