Possible Governmental Backdoor Found ("case R2D2")

Related thread: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3088687" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3088687</a>

That's really a big deal and just shows how governments treat their own laws and how important an open government is, in which such things can be verified and controlled!

I'd be more worried if this was a backdoor in a popular program or operating system that was specified by the government and implemented by the original software author rather than more typical malware/trojan more akin to a wiretap. The former would be widespread and affect millions of users, while this appears to be a tool for use by law enforcement to carry out legitimate surveilance in criminal investigations. Presumably every modern government has such capabilities or they are really asleep at the switch.

Germans interested in similar news should check Felix von Leitners blog, who brings up interesting articles almost every day: <a href="http://blog.fefe.de/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.fefe.de/</a>

POE = Purity of Essence?

Digging down to the source material, the Strong Towns group does address Government Transfer Payments, explaining that all suburbs are subsidized. But they avoid offending anyone by pointing out that the suburbs were financed by the urban areas.<p>In my experience, suburban dwellers don't like learning that they're parasites.