Libérale et libertaire

Of course, HBO’s “The Wire” only lasted 5 seasons, but David Simon’s post romp as public intellectual to the chattering opinion classes suggests a sixth season: how a paunchy middle class...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/the-wire-the-sixth-season/

The State’s war on Dark Net marketplaces will result in previously trusted marketplaces being replaced by riskier and less trustworthy ones. Honest people operating on a reasonable risk/reward ...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/no-a-myriad-of-new-silk-roads-will-not-rise-up-to-replace-the-old-one/

The artistry of American democracy…Its first and only rule: the degree of vitriol and exaggerated importance is inversely proportional to the differences between the candidates. From such a pri...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/hillary-vs-jeb/

This piece, The Libertarian Delusion, by the American Prospect is textbook straw man logical fallacy so bereft of imagination that the author manages to subvert his own position. Memo: if the thi...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/the-progressive-promise/

In a nutshell this epitomizes the problem I have with the “libertarian moment.” Everyone is a libertarian, but it is all lip service. If you want to know how this ends, simply reference the c...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/former-nsa-director-michael-hayden-self-identifies-as-a-relentless-libertarian/

“All traffic is equal but some is more equal than others” The Pigs Heuristically, there is no such thing as “net neutrality”…there hasn’t been since the 1988 Morris Worm. Without heur...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/political-science-v-net-neutrality/

If I was the NSA, I would target the same thing – all the crypto keys. I do the same on pentests, so why not? One target, huge ROI. Kevin Mitnick Again, as a reminder, The Hayek Knowledge Probl...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/political-science-iv-hacked-knowledge-problem/

Michael Hayden claims the enterprise of US Government surveillance has attained the status of the Madisonian Trifecta. Hmmm, sounds like a bad Robert Ludlum novel, or perhaps it’s just another ...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/the-madisonian-trifecta/

This cybersecurity bill effectively applies the drug war model to computer security. Of course, as predicted. In the 90s, I thought the internet presaged an era of unprecedented human liberty. No...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/political-science-iii/

The Tor Project has issued a warning that the United States government may soon start seizing core nodes of the Tor Network under the pretext of investigating the “Sony Hack.”1 Of course, Pra...

https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/political-science-part-two/