Re: Folly of the Yes Men.... @AC
Any kind of authoritarian government wants to have legal tools to harass and/or jail any opposition with. "They" also want those laws to be applied discretionally - like everyone being guilty of something, only the ones that "we" don't like or no longer like, getting nailed. ... AC
That's the old and failing way of doing things, AC, and assumes an overwhelming superiority of intelligence in incumbent systems admins. With smarter opponents and/or virtually savvy competition nowadays and with the myriad globally penetrating tools so freely available to them, is the way of the Great Game changed forever more ........ and you have made no mention of the simplest of ways to have a sharp thorn and persistent inconvenience removed from one's side ...... the payment of significant Danegeld which would allow one to retire magnificently from the battling fields of work, rest and play.
And as you say, it is not expensive to them for it is freely provided/invented, thus a real bargain at any price.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
