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Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government
2. Securing Rights
The purpose of government is to maintain a society which secures to every member the inherent and inalienable rights of man, and promotes the safety and happiness of its people. Protecting these rights from violation, therefore, is its primary obligation.
"To secure these [inalienable] rights [to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:429
"The principles of government... [are] founded in the rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. ME 16:51
"It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all." --Thomas Jefferson to Francois D'Ivernois, 1795. FE 7:4
While we were arguing over gay rights look what was in the looming shadows
pretty much swiped this from another site:
Unknown hackers got into the servers at Hacking Team, an Italian company focused on selling security software to governments and law enforcement agencies around the world.
They downloaded 400 Gigs of data, including secret documents detailing their commercial dealings with various entities including governments with questionable human rights records.
In addition, the source code of their products was also stolen and published via bitorrents, allowing hackers everywhere to compromise their software anywhere it's been installed.
They also took over their website and changed the company name to "Hacked Team".
In response, the company has issued an urgent notice to all of its active accounts, warning them to disable their software due to the hack.
Now you might be wondering just what this Hacking Team software called Galileo is all about.
Well it allows those who purchase the right to use it, to spy on Internet users and smartphones.
Basically it's legal malware used to expose and exploit backdoors and bugs in other companies' software.
Well in addition to selling this malware to governments and repressive regimes so they could spy on their own citizens, Hacking Team even inserted backdoors into their own software so that THEY could spy on their customers too!
By allowing SQL injections, the Hacking Team could search and modify any data their software could access.
That is the reason why they told their customers to stop using their software.
So now that the Hacking Team was hacked, it has exposed major vulnerabilities or backdoors in other software.
The Hacking Team has been labeled an "Enemy of the Internet" by various Internet groups.
Hopefully this event will put them out of business.
Hacking Team has responded claiming the hackers are lying and that the hackers included a virus in the torrent.
Uh, my guess is there are many "viruses" in that 400 gb, most developed by the Hacking Team themselves, in order to help others spy on people.
Here's a document from the hack that details a 480,000 Euro payment Hacking Team received from the repressive Sudanese government for their services.
< Message edited by Real0ne -- 10/22/2015 4:41:52 PM >
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