Too much power
Too much power
Act 111 is nothing more than a remedial version of George Bush’s “Patriot Act,” which is nothing more than an updated English language version of Herr Adolf Schicklgruber’s “Enabling Act.”
If you’ve never heard of Schicklgruber, it’s because he changed his name to Hitler.
Do we really need a governor with that kind of power at his or her beck and call whenever they so desire? This veteran says no.
Taking it even farther, it could lead to pre-emptive strikes (not necessarily with MK 82 500-pound general purpose bombs), especially with local politics as vindictive as it has been known to be.
Dave Kisor
Pahoa
Hackers and thieves
Regarding “Hacker headaches for everyone,” (Tribune Herald, Nov. 10): So, we learn a cyber security expert had his identity stolen by hackers. As the Junior Wells song goes, “Somebody hoodoo’d the hoodoo man.”
Big corporations, such as Target and Apple, have been hacked, and their customers’ credit identities potentially were compromised. Big banks have been hacked. Cyber folks say 21 percent of U.S. federal government cyber breaches are government employee human errors, and the employees need to be better educated.
Well, what about the other 79 percent of successful government cyber attacks? Education of employees is fine, but cyber defense and cyber theft are a co-evolving kind of warfare with no clear present winner. Every traditional means of secure identification, once it enters Internet use for better defense, gets hacked.
Does a fingerprint-secure entry to your electronic telephone make you feel more secure? It shouldn’t. Your fingerprint image is now out in the Internet clouds, connected to all your other Internet phone use — a new personal identity blossom offered for plucking by cyber thieves and spies.
William Mautz
Hilo
U.S. in decline
The European Space Agency lands a spacecraft on a comet.
The Russians resupply the International Space Station.
The Swiss have the largest collider in the world.
The United Stated has two spacecraft blow up.
We are not even in third place.
What has happened to the American drive to be the best?
The United States in danger of becoming a technological Third World nation. Research is imperative for a nation to stay in a position of leadership in this increasingly technological world.
Brian Ingalls
Keaau