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1, your willingness to whitewash the calculated murder of a civilian journalist is chilling, it's hard to believe you argue in good faith.

2. Clapper lying under oath to Congress, numberous illegal programs under the NSA.

3. Just another isolated example right? Honest mistake, just like the weddings and the explicit double tap strategy that explicitly targets emergency medical responders.

4. Forget about abu ghraib? Just another isolated example... Seeing a pattern here of your refusal to look past the numerous examples, as if you have your head in the sand.

6. Gitmo is the result of our Governments decision to violate the Geneva convention on the handling prisoners of war, the Taliban certainly qualified, but our military industrial complex did the legal contortions of enemy combatants instead. Gitmo existence is a clear war crime.

7. I'd pursue by continuing to respect the rule of law, international law, and our Constitution, apparently trifling concerns to you.

5. Look it up, Obama violated his oath by refusing to execute the law of land against one of the most henious crimes possible.

"Turns out it kindof doesn't.

After some quick reading, [1] a "kill box" is still subject to the standard rules of engagement."

If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. The US military does not in any meaningful sense follow its own rules of engagement, the rule of law, international law, common moral decency. The examples are legion and extremely well documented.

If you still believe the US military obeys the rule of law, international law, common decency, and their own rules of engagement then you have not been paying attention to 1, the Manning leaks, 2 Snowden leaks, 3 recent war crimes involving the bombing of hospitals operated by doctors without boarders, Senate report on torture, Obama refusal to exercise the laws against torture, Gitmo, the 'disposition matrix' aka kill lists without oversight, 'double-taps'. The list so long, extensive, and well documented that I can only question your sincerity.

People should realize that political solutions have failed spectacularly.

Technical solutions are the only possible answer, that and cultural responses.

Vast state surveillance is made possible by technical expertise. We shouldnt laud those who assist the government in this task nor in any tasks. We should shun colleagues who choose to assist the enemies of humanity, those in positions to hire should not hire those with backgrounds in government and make it known through back channels that such people are not desirable, that you will be black balled if choose to assist these heinous entities in their oppression.

Finally those able and willing should consider other methods of raising the cost of state surveillance, but openly recommending such things is potentially a crime in the eyes of the state.

Which is exactly the issue? At any time the server can request a key reset and have messages resent. I don't see how it is at all irrelevant since it is exactly what the cause is here.

Binaries which have a client-server architecture certainly are.

Is the claim the full WhatsApp stack is open to regular indepedent third party security audits from multiple firms?

I've largely stopped using chrome on mobile because of the lack of ublock. When I do use chrome it's with JavaScript disabled.

Despite a few UI differences switching to Firefox on mobile with ublock has been excellent.

Ah but technology, specifically the technological process may make tools of us yet.

Heidegger's question concerning technology is essential reading, but his basic argument is the technological process subordinates all others to be ends to itself. Notice how people don't so much adapt technology to their needs as adjust their needs to the available technology.

Yes but it is trivial to backdoor closed source software.

Introducing backdoors into open source source is also more difficult.