[lbo-talk] Why Metadata Matters

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 06:43:03 PDT 2013


This is nothing new. The military industrial complex has been in this country since the WWII. The only difference is the hardware involved.

My point is that the us 99% has the choice of either making a choice of government over private business or elsewhere get more of the neo liberal shit they have been getting for a while. Or move elsewhere if they can, or off themselves.

Wojtek Sent from my Droid On Jul 30, 2013 3:08 PM, "Andy" <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > First, private business has been already doing it for years, so the
> notion
> > of privacy is a joke. We have none thanks to advertising industry. So not
> > much is lost when government does it. And I trust government far more
> than
> > I trust private business.
> >
>
> The cool thing is that you don't even have to choose one or the other:
>
>
> http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-disastrous-rise-of-misplaced-power.html
>
> [...]
>
> Some of the country's most influential venture capitalists and former spy
> chiefs are investing in companies now providing the government with the
> sweeping electronic spy system and evolving cyberwarfare programs exposed
> by Mr. Snowden.
>
> More than 80 companies work with the NSA on cybersecurity and surveillance,
> according to a recent report in the German magazine Der Spiegel that was
> based on top secret documents provided by Mr. Snowden. They include firms
> like the one that employed Mr. Snowden as an infrastructure analyst in
> Hawaii, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.,as well as scores of new players.
>
> Last year, venture capitalists pumped about $700 million into security
> startups, almost a 10th of the estimated market, according to Lawrence
> Pingree, research director at Gartner Inc., IT +0.88% the U.S. information
> technology research company.
>
> That's a small part of a broader technology market expected to grow from
> $67.1 billion this year to more than $93 billion in 2017, he said.
>
>
> [...]
>
> {WSJ source paywalled}
>
> --
> Andy
> "It's a testament to ketchup that there can be no confusion."
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