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Face it friends. The game is over and democracy, privacy and freedom lost. We are all now - officially - slaves to a 0.001% who literally control just about everything. Since the government and regulators are now almost completely under the control and influence of these very few, it is simply silly to believe that any of our "representatives" will cut off their ties to their corporate masters.
ReplyDeleteWhats the 1% nonsense have to do with this? This is out of control government, third world style.
DeleteAccording to Kaspersky lab syrvey 35% of companies worldwide don't use encryption to safeguard business data.
ReplyDeleteUse strong cryptography! This is the only way to protect from the spies!