Reply to post: The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:"

The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:"

Generally speaking, in democratic nations, the police have had a good record of not using the ability to do insider trading, steal credit card numbers, engage in blackmail or voyeurism, and so on; they really have been just using bugs and taps to find real criminals.

Oh yes and didn't that work so well for the bastion of integrity when it was run under the auspices of J Edgar Hoover.

So what happens when the 9th Wonder of the World, Quantum Computers, become a viable reality? If they work as per the writing on the box, encryption will be a thing of the past (or so I am led to believe). Will that not far cup the TLAs, terry wrists and our secret messages?

If politicians really do become a massive menace to our privacy and the freedom of Apple, Google, Facebook and other such company's CEOs, what is to stop them throwing a few Beeellion dollars of loose change at an election and choose their own "friendly" candidates. A couple of Billion $$ and they could practically buy the US Presidency. Now if they only had access to some social media.......