CoderJ
join:2003-12-10
Oakdale, CT
1 edit | Bandwagon Hopper Blumenthal.... AWAY! Checklist time!
•Running for senate? Check!
•History of jumping on popular bandwagon causes (to be forgotten about when hoopla dies off)(eg - Mid-summer fuel price gouging 2009 (no follow through); Craigslist "oversight" (little to do with CT, almost no way to actually follow through; forgotten about after it was revealed... no one cared except perverts))? Check!
•Attempting to recover from a damaging political faux pas (like alluding to having served in Vietnam... when you never left the US)? Check!
Most people who live in CT know Blumenthal for what he is; a snake who jumps on a bandwagon to further his own cause, while it's moving. If Google had meant anything ill by collecting the data why would they have admitted it? Seriously, no one knew.
If Blumenthal actually wanted to look like he was concerned with the privacy and welfare of the people of CT he would be doing more to get them to secure their wireless networks as well as educating users of free WiFi how to do so safely. There are countless numbers of people who hook into unsecure or improperly secured networks every day for actual nefarious deeds (such as exploiting computers on that network, stealing data, packet sniffing for identity theft, etc).
Instead, he puts Google in the cross-hairs; going against a large corporation versus taking on the actual multitude of faceless con men gets more positive airtime. Especially important for someone running for senate. |
