Might as well tattoo a UUID on our foreheads and be done with it at this rate. God I hate hearing the apologists for the NSA in these threads. Are you so devoid of empathy?
Downvote all you like. I'm over this, and I'm getting out of the IT game. If everything I do can be taken at will by a far more powerful, and greedy, team than I can do anything about, what is the point. Time for a change of career. I've always wanted to protect our dying forests and species in any case.
Renouncing my US citizenship too. This is all too disgusting.
Statements like this make it hard to take your comment seriously, but I'm going to try.
> Time for a change of career. I've always wanted to protect our dying forests and species in any case.
What makes you think you can do anything about this? If you're in tech, it's likely that's where your training, experience, and interests lie and so that's where you're likely to be most effective for now. Why not spread awareness of issues that concern you and work with like-minded people to do what you can. Do you think your fancy new career protecting the environment won't involve working against powerful and greedy opponents?
Empathy for whom? I know pacifists want to believe we live in a post-war world, and if only we would not make guns or do the kind of things the NSA is doing here we'll suddenly live in a perfect world—but by what fantastical mechanism do you actually think that will happen?
The old pacifist keyword, its a bit like the communist keyword.
The only war we have at the moment is the one you (assuming you're a shill) created and want to sustain. Because if you don't, it all falls down. Its about the US dollar, and oil.
Assigning people unchangeable and public UUIDs is worth doing regardless and has nothing to do with espionage. Please don't damage such proposals by associating them with controversial topics like this one.
