09Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

Oklahoma Police Can Seize Your Entire Bank Account on a Traffic Stop Without Any Charges

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From the article: The one state that has gone complete anti-democratic is Oklahoma. It is wise not to travel in that state at all. Oklahoma should be on a no-fly zone. Now, Oklahoma police can outright seize everything you have from debit cards to bank accounts on a traffic stop without any criminal charges being filed. If some policeman thinks you’re doing something illegal, your life is over. Without money, you cannot hire a lawyer and they can just rob everything you have on a whim. Oklahoma Police Can Seize Your Entire Bank Account on a Traffic Stop Without Any Charges
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09Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

The FBI is on the cusp of obtaining three extremely dangerous new powers

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James Comey has been at the forefront of a dangerously excessive amount of requests for new powers for the FBI.  He's the one that tried to get Congress to outlaw encryption, to force backdoors into encryption and other privacy guaranteeing technologies.  He's the man who tried to get Apple to write software to break their own device's security.  He's been heavily lobbying in an effort to grant the FBI more warrantless powers.  He's not the man that we want in this position because every effort he makes he chips away at the constitutional protections. https://privacysos.org/blog/fbi-wants-lot-power-spy-us-trust/
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07Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

Broadband CEOs Admit Usage Caps Are Nothing More Than A Toll On Uncompetitive Markets

Broadband, Internet
  Time and time again, we've noted how the broadband industry's justifications for usage caps just don't hold water. And while the industry used to falsely claim that caps were necessary due to congestion or to save us all from the bullshit "exaflood," the industry has slowly but surely stopped using any justification at all for what's really just glorified rate hikes on uncompetitive markets. These days, big ISPs like AT&T and Comcast looking to impose usage caps either give no justification whatsoever, or pretend they're doing consumers a favor by providing more "choice and flexibility." (more…)
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07Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

Microsoft as a company doesn’t recognize user’s privacy

Microsoft, privacy, Windows
This is taken from a post that explains your lack of privacy rights well beyond my ability to do so, so I'm posting it here in full. For this reason I do not run Microsoft software.  There are others such as the lack of adequate security and other protections.  All attributions apply.  The post is made in full without any corrections: IANAL. This answer is just a broad picture based on Microsoft's own words, as they were at the time of originally writing this (just after the final release of Windows 10). (more…)
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06Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

Who am I

Asterisk, History, Linux, Postfix, Virtual Web Servers
My experience with desktop computing goes back to the early years of PCs.  I began working with desktop computers in the early 80s.  I worked on some terminal based systems in the USAF and in college, yet any computing interest never took hold.  They seemed costly (expensive) and impersonal. (more…)
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