Digg3r wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:07 pm The fact that identity theft is a thing means every piece of data storage should be encrypted.

BTW eriksank a condition of entry into Australia is that customs can confiscate and examine any electronic device or storage without warrant and without reasonable suspicion.

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''BTW eriksank a condition of entry into Australia is that customs can confiscate and examine any electronic device or storage without warrant and without reasonable suspicion.

Prolly written into many countries laws. Haven't ever given a thought.

the legal reasoning behind search of your devices is that having not yet formally entered the country you are outside of jurisdiction and you must submit to requests as a condition of entry.

Digg3r wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:07 pmBTW eriksank a condition of entry into Australia is that customs can confiscate and examine any electronic device or storage without warrant and without reasonable suspicion.

Welcome to the miracles of man-made law! Why don't they invent more of that? Aren't we all unsatisfied subjects who desperately want more of this?

because we are considered as chattel. that is why we do not own our own passports.

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:24 pmthe legal reasoning behind search of your devices is that having not yet formally entered the country you are outside of jurisdiction and you must submit to requests as a condition of entry.

Yeah, they do not particularly respect you, do they?

As I suggested previously, all respect is ultimately based on the fear for reprisals. Instinctively, they certainly know that all of this will not finish with a happy ending. They invent their stuff, just because they can. What if everybody started thinking like that? In fact, that is exactly what is happening.

You know, predictions are a very dangerous tool. In the Jim Bell Assassination market, the only things that users do, is to predict when exactly someone is going to die, and then put their money where their mouth is.

The only thing that was missing, back then in 1995, were anonymous digital currencies. Time has kept progressing, and now we have 754 currencies / 125 assets / 4171 markets, whereunder, bitcoin. It is obvious that someone will just start building a Jim Bell market, and then run it on the tor network.

Game-theoretically, if you consistently keep predicting that their legs are going to get blown off, under certain conditions, that is exactly what is going to happen. "You see. I told you so!". It is even inevitable. The power of government has totally eroded, while they trying to exercise even more power. Government is on a very dangerous collision course with technology. You can clearly see what is going to happen. I am predicting a tragedy for them.

And....the powers that be will not control the tech? Do I have that right.

Luigi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 6:02 pmAnd....the powers that be will not control the tech? Do I have that right.

It is out of control already.

I recently posted an analysis of The French-British action plan of 13 June 2017. With a large chunk of internet infrastructure controlled by USA-based companies and persons, this plan can never be carried out without suspending the American constitution, while suspending it, simply amounts to bombing Pearl Harbor. Whatever they do, the only effect will be to accelerate the inevitable. Turmoil. Chaos. The internet retaliating. I predict that they are going to get wholesale murdered, just because the internet can.

By the definition of the term "life", which means, growing and defending its own existence, the internet is effectively alive, and will resist every possible attempt at destroying it.

Life
The definition of life is controversial. The current definition is that organisms maintain homeostasis, are composed of cells, undergo metabolism, can grow, adapt to their environment, respond to stimuli, and reproduce.

If we do not artificially limit "life" to things that use organic chemistry, even the universe itself is alive:

From a physics perspective, living beings are thermodynamic systems with an organized [[molecular]] structure that can reproduce itself and evolve as survival dictates. Thermodynamically, life has been described as an open system which makes use of gradients in its surroundings to create imperfect copies of itself. Hence, life is a self-sustained [[chemical]] system capable of undergoing [[Darwinian]] evolution. A major strength of this definition is that it distinguishes life by the evolutionary process rather than its chemical composition.

There are many more things "alive" than just bred from organic chemistry. If the thing is dictated by survival, and fiercely defends itself, and ultimately defeats death by engaging in reproduction, then it is alive.

Every organization, company, or even human practice must deeply adapt to the internet or else disappear. After 20+ years, we are only at the beginning of this process. Governments have remained the same. Even "money" is changing completely. Governments are utterly naive if they believe that the existing forms of government -- business as usual -- can survive without changing fundamentally to reflect that the internet now exists. Furthermore, it is not the internet that will disappear. It is them. Governments don't want to change. So, they will be made to change.

I would love to hear where he got that info from. Ask him, if you can.

first, he is an IT dweeb, thus knows everything- I am qualified to make tha statement after working 15 years in the industry.
second, they regularly do this on entry to USA and many other cuntries. he may have based the assumption on that given only 30 odd percent of Americans have a passport or know anything about the rest of the world.