Nanny State of the Week: New York plans to ban iPhones

[Thai]

Man in the middle attack involves the hacker providing his public key to one or both endpoints, that's how he gets in. Key management can be hard, regardless of where they are.
The other hacking way is to have gained access to the device/computer prior to the message being encrypted.

It's pretty interesting stuff.

Read above link.

As for your second point, it is called a mugging!

 

[ben550]

This presentation by Mark Stein relates well to this topic. It is a broader presentation on Conservatism and the facts of life. He goes through political issues in both the US and Canada. Well worth watching/listening to.

I highly recommend you just turn it on in the background and listen to it in the evening while you surf the web...

The presentation kicks off at the 10 minute mark. And goes into questions and answers at the 50 minute mark.

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28:30 goes into having a "bureaucracy for life" the western way of dictatorship... which is a threat to liberty... Very interesting.

32:35 He talks about how these regulations and intrusions into freedom/privacy are "redistributing societal energy from the productive sector to the obstructive sector. Fact of life: Big government makes small citizens."