Of course, someone might ask, who protects us from our Government?

Apparently you didn’t know. He needs probable cause, but not a search warrant. Completely different from your home. Learn a little about the law, ok?

You’re absolutely right, but the 4th amendment makes it clear that without probable cause, a search is illegal:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Again, I win; you lose, self-hating boomer. The authority to conduct a search of a private party per the 4th amendment is based on probable cause. Even the agency-issued warrants like National Security Letters have to be based on probable cause. An FBI agent can write their own NSL on the spot for your car, but they can go to prison for writing it if the FBI or a federal court decides that the agent had no probable cause.

Iran has been waging a proxy war against the United States specifically, and the West in general, for decades, and now they’re on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons capabilities. If it’s “warmongering” to urge war against Iran, then I’m proud to be called a warmonger.

How to tell? I don’t think one can, not for a few years anyway.

Shrug. That’s the nature of software. You have to trust the makers and distributors of the software you install, since they can put whatever they want in the software. For each piece of software you might install, do you trust the producers, do you trust the commentators?

Pesonally, I mostly trust skype.

I took it off but it was interesting.

http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html

Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there’s no need to rely on a single third party. What’s more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner’s choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.

Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on an owner’s laptop. The client continually monitors the current location of the laptop, gathering information (such as IP addresses and local network topology) that can be used to identify its current location. The client then uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to not only encrypt the location data, but also ensure that the ciphertexts stored within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable. At the same time, it is easy for an owner to retrieve location information.