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On Encrypted Communication

11/16/2015 from my Facebook post: Since the Paris terrorist attack, I have heard a lot of propaganda critical of encrypted communication and encryption technology. A Few Thoughts... Encryption with back doors for law enforcement doesn't exist nor can it be created. Encryption doesn't work that way. If there were back doors to allow law enforcement access to streams of communication, the "bad guys" or corporations are just as capable of exploiting the same back door. Fake crypto isn't safe to use. I'm not willing to give up my right to privacy in exchange for security. If there is no real encryption then there is no real privacy. I'm amazed at how quickly our elected leaders are so willing to compromise the constitution and our rights in exchange for their "protection".
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My Thoughts on "Straight Outta Compton"

Straight Outta Compton 1.  Jason Mitchell as Easy-E/Eric Wright was an Oscar worthy performance.  The young man deserves an Oscar nomination. He won't win but her deserves the nomination. 2.  I can't helped be reminded of Boys-N-The-Hood.  Great Movie. Great Story.  Show that stole the Summer.  Compton & LA.  Ice Cube. Straight-out-Compton. 3.  Why is Yella complaining!  "All publicity is good publicity".  Oh, he ain't complaining? 4.  Why is Ren complaining! "All publicity is good publicity".  Is he complaining? 5.  How Timely a Movie!  The fascism of now is playing out in just as deadly terms and it was then.  Now, we have more access to see and the cops massively out-gun the citizens.  #FuckThePolice  #BlackLivesMatter 6. @DruSonpn and I were at the Houston, TX show depicted in the movie.  We later got shot at during the after party.  I think that it was club Gucci on the "norf side" of town. 7.  I ain't mad at Jerry.  
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Coates on the Baltimore Riots of 2015

Coates on the State's call for peace during the Baltimore riots of 2015. "When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. When nonviolence is preached by the representatives of the state, while the state doles out heaps of violence to its citizens, it reveals itself to be a con." - Ta-Nehisi Coates http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/
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