The US government insisted on using 40-bit DES encryption despite knowing it was weak, leaving data vulnerable to attacks. Encryption is vital for protecting against government surveillance and for those trying to change the government or corporate policies.
The lack of clear regulations around cryptocurrency is hindering innovation and progress, and entrepreneurs need to know what rules they are meant to follow. Crypto is not the Wild West, and it's important for the government to facilitate growth and adoption through sensible regulatory frameworks.
The historical access to information and power was directly correlated with wealth, and this notion continues to manifest today through currency control, who issues it, who sets the interest rates, and making the rules addressing money is critical to the human rights discourse.
The founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence discusses the secrecy behind UFO information and how it ties into money and power.
The executive branch needs to be able to create classifications for secret and top secret information so that they can easily redact confidential paragraphs in documents obtained through FOIA requests. However, if one part of a document is classified as top secret, some may question the need for subcategorizing.
Mikey Drennan, the founder of Gatsby & Miller, a luxury clothier for men, speaks about Edward Snowden and the repercussions of his actions on espionage and global relations, in his interview with The Realignment podcast. He also admits that the choices Snowden made, despite airing illegal activities of powerful countries, came at the cost of an ingrained image of a distasteful actor, which has been amplified post-Jeffrey Epstein's death.