Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 16, 2012 15:03 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities by robert_s
Parent article: Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

The government and 'corporate monstrosity' are the same people. They go hand in hand. This has been going all the way back since the merchant class backed parliament won the civil war in England. In the USA the government established by the constitution is fundamentally a mercantilist establishment following along the same lines.

To think that the government acts as a counter to the monolithic corporate power structure just means that you drank too much cool-aid. Without the government there wouldn't be a monolithic corporate power structure.

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Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 21, 2012 13:56 UTC (Tue) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link] (2 responses)

While governments are not especially lovable no-governement is and has been tried regularly all over the world. It's called civil war (different groups competing without any legitimate central power) and by and large, the result is not appealing at all, especially for bystanders.

And I doubt a social animal like man can avoid forming groups once population density gets non-minimal.

Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 21, 2012 15:48 UTC (Tue) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link] (1 responses)

> It's called civil war (different groups competing without any legitimate central power)

Civil war is involves _two_ governments, not "no government". In civil war, two groups are claiming and competing for "legitimate" central power in a given territory. "No government" means just the opposite, that no one has an effective, "legitimate" claim.

> And I doubt a social animal like man can avoid forming groups once population density gets non-minimal.

There's nothing wrong with forming groups. The problem lies in aggressive actions toward people who do not choose to join or remain in your group.

Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 21, 2012 16:14 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

That depends on a civil war. It's certainly not uncommon to have multiple competing pseudo-govenment entities (just look at Russian post-revolutionary civil war as an example).