[GreenKeys] Internet Security - Off topic -

[KC0NNC at aol.com]

More commentary and opinion...
 
Since someone else brought it up.
 
 
It is my opinion that the Internet is a USA invention, and should stay  under 
the control of the US.  Worldwide, just as the telephone is a US  invention.  
I don't have a problem with the rest of the world hopping on  the Internet 
bandwagon, but what drives the Internet is commerce.  
 
The Internet is like having a Western Union office in your living room or  
home office or downtown office. or all three.
 
I use the Internet for business 90% of the time, and hamming and  social 
purposes the remaining 10% of the time.  It has served me well, and  I no longer 
need a fax machine, or in house Law Library, etc.
 
I haven't written a postal letter to anyone for the last 5 years, but still  
send invoices and receive checks through the snail mail.  Pretty impressive  
to my thinking.
 
One of these days they will figure out how to tax the commerce running  
through EBay, and when they do I hope they will drop the personal income  tax.  I 
look for the tax to get up to 10%, probably in increments of 1%.  over ten 
years.  when I do not know or predict, but it will happen.  otherwise all commerce 
will migrate to the Internet (even food purchases from  the local grocery 
store) 
 
73's for now... it is good we have these off subject moments, it gives us  
perspective.
 
 
Oh! One thing the designers of the Internet forgot to do... make  
transmissions of beheadings traceable to the source computer with routing  signatures.
 
we made a big blunder telling Osama we were intercepting his cell phone  
calls... the news man  that did that should be shot.  Osama is no  technical 
genius, he probably believed all his cell calls were private and  undecodable.  
That is Till we told him.
 
73's for now
 
Harv Smith
 
Harvey E.  Smith, KC0NNC
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Pueblo, CO., 81001-2456

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