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On 10 February 2014 16:11, Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At the risk of trivialising your point, I bow to a greater tinfoil hat than > my own. Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Nevertheless, it's worth remembering that cockups outnumber conspiracies many times over. Unfortunately, that's no comfort in this context; in fact it provides further confirmation of my thesis. If the cops mean to smash and grab your next-door neighbour but through negligence and/or incompetence they hit you instead (an off-by-one bug, in programming terms), you still end up just as hit, and perhaps even more vulnerable to a vicious post-hoc stitch-up/rationalisation. Or say you accidentally happened to own and operate digital electronic equipment while black. Lots of things like that to consider, but in the end, we can't let that stuff hold us back or we'd all just end up paralysed with fear. It's worth remembering that in spite of what we're led to believe throughout our lives, the state security apparatus doesn't know a) everything or b) anything. They are deeply, deeply stupid and above all frightened people. They are so scared of the mass of the people getting wise to them, it paralyses *them*. And so it should. -- Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq