You’ve probably seen the hoopla regarding MacLockPick — a USB device used for extracting passwords and such from a Mac running OS X. You can google MacLockPick or simply go to <http://www.subrosasoft.com/> to read about it. Couple of notes: To work, the software on MacLockPick must be run. That means someone has to gain physical access […]
Posts under ‘Government’
Virginia Tech Shootings
Like many shootings before it, this one did not have to be a mass-killing. It could have been nipped in the bud if just one potential victim had been armed.
Right to Self Defense? Naw!
U.N. To World: You Have No Human Right to Self-Defense Thwarted by the demise of its global gun ban treaty, the United Nations declares the human right of self-defense null and void. by Dave Kopel America’s First Freedom, November 2006, pp. 26-29, 62-63 <http://www.davekopel.org/2A/Foreign/UN-To-World.htm> “People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for […]
The War On (some) Drugs
An Epidemic of “Isolated Incidents” <http://www.cato.org/raidmap/> An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper “Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids,” by Radley Balko. The war against (some) drugs is totally out of control. It leads to these increasingly frequent “dynamic” entries and no-knock search […]
Net Neutrality
You may have heard about ‘Net Neutrality’ or perhaps ‘Internet Neutrality’. You may have heard nice things about it. I’m telling you it’s a bad idea. The idea behind Net Neutrality sounds good, unless you understand how networks work. The Competitive Enterprise Institute addresses ‘Neutrality. Their concern seems aimed at pricing flexibility — the lack thereof […]