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Duke, the salesman doesn't want you to know just how vulnerable his phones are to viruses (virii??). If he was honest with you, you might not want to buy his phone. It's the same with computer sales, they will never tell you what a security nightmare a Windows box can be.
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Carolina Man, I just try to make sure the people who use this site can keep their own systems safe and secure. I know, some people make it sound like they really do not care who is reading their e-mails, but I am old enough to have been well-versed on respecting the privacy of others. And I like to think there might be a reasonable expectation that others might respect my own privacy.
Ladar Levison, owner of the now-shuttered Lavabit secure mail service, has stated he has completely discontinued the use of e-mail, and that if people like you and I knew what he knows, we would stop using it, as well. And it is all happening behind the phony veil of 'threatened terrorism', which has done its own share of attacking our Constitutional rights.
I'll not point fingers at any political figure or party, primarily because I don't have enough fingers, but for anyone who is paying conscious attention to what is happening, the scheme is plain as day. We have already suffered a government take-over of our economy, we are now threatened with a total disarmament which means people will not be able to fight back, we are seeing the constant and complete destruction and disregard for the Constitution and Bill of Rights, as well as the media elimination of those who still believe in liberty. Bradley Manning and Eric Snowden told people the truth, yet they are now branded criminals, by the real criminals. Anyone old enough see the similarity between these two instances and that of Daniel Ellsberg, who showed how the U.S. was lied to, in order to enter the war in Viet Nam? I want to know where the transparent government we were promised 5 or 6 years ago has been hiding.
If memory serves, I believe it was Voltaire who said, "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." What the American sheeple do not realize is that the chains are being added, a link at a time, along with false, hollow reassurances. But one day, they will wake up to see how they have duped. Of course they will be chained to a prison of their own design when that happens.