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The CIA will surrender to the IRA.

Obama and the atheist CIA wake each day and ask, "How can we fuck God, today? I know! We'll make nuns perform abortions. We make homos dance naked in Russian churches in front of old church ladies. Isn't that hilarious? We'll make a complete mockery of marriage because, after all, niggers don't have fathers and that's not fair. My wife, Michelle, wants there to be no cupcakes for school birthdays because of single moms. We'll make God hated... just for pedophiles and crazy insane sand-niggers. We'll drink fetus soup with the Queen and celebrate the end of births. We'll make having children pedophillic. We'll make every five year old African girl learn how to put on a condom. We'll make churchs no longer tax exempt. <Giggle> We'll make all the conservative sons into liberal atheist homos. <Giggle> Will bring in Mexicans to ensure democratic votes. We made whites have no children because they covet money.

Jesus advocated capital punishment. Matthew 18:6 Mark 9:42 Luke 17:2. He said to put a millstone around the neck of anyone who corrupts the youth and throw them in the sea. Obama made the youth covet the money of the wealthy."

The IRA is like the NRA, but for computers. The CIA wants all code in the cloud under their lock and key. They want to ban compilers and make people think HTML is computer programming. They want to evaporate desktops so you have no local computer, just massive cloud computers.

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Not only will Silicon Valley have to build more secure systems, most importantly people outside of Silicon Valley will need to make themselves willing to use these systems.
The first thing you should do, if you want Silicon Valley to help fight cyberterrorism, is not talk to it via the RAND Corporation. Politically, Silicon Valley is an uneasy truce between liberals and libertarians, and while they don't agree on everything, I think one thing they share is a negative attitude towards the RAND Corporation; perceiving it as the face of the unaccountable military-industrial complex and its close friend, the panopticon surveillance state. Try again.
I can see Orwell was right already. "Terrorism" (the word) has become, by and large, a tool of nation-states and institutions like RAND to legitimize another horrific term: "extra judicial killing" (i.e. murder).

The last thing we as technologists need to do is feel obligated to take part in some continuous war against a concept that cannot be defined, with a victory no one understands or articulates.

Liberty has costs. We can either live in perfectly monitored and managed security (i.e. fascism) or make trade-offs that give us privacy and freedom critical to human flourishing.

Our propensity to decouple suffering from causality is disconcerting. Complete elimination of suffering equals complete integration of all interests. Sounds fairly inefficient to me.
The article came off as incredibly sophomoric, like it was written just with a dictionary and a thesaurus. I didn't really understand the point of it, even though it was written by a veritable expert in terrorism.

I was hoping for some more intriguing and specific insights in what the tech community could do to help. Also their headquarters is a massive building in Santa Monica, on 1776 Main Street. Certainly RAND could produce something better than this?