Microsoft: US government is an 'advanced persistent threat'

All governments are a persistent threat. For whatever good they do, they have raised the largest armies, killed the most peoples, and have implemented the most coercive/forceful terms when dealing with other parties (taxes, prison, subsidies, bailouts, etc)

People need to start understanding that where I'm from, Income Tax was only started as a wartime measure. Now it will never disappear, even though we have less need for it now than before that wartime measure was implemented. http://www.duhaime.org/LawMuseum/CanadianLegalHistory/LawArt...

My question for advocates of government is: Explain how are current modern issues (Economic Crises, State Spying, Bank Bailouts, Private Prisons, Oil Subsidies, etc) are the product of anything else? Also, if our problems are cause non government entities, then why create institutions that can concentrate even more? Surely society isn't so naive to know that these same institutions wouldn't be compromised by these agents (regulators, lawmakers, judges, officers)?

US government is an 'advanced persistent threat': Iran since 1979 Any sane person can figure this, this is no play on words. If someone can be aggressive against someone, he will be against everyone too. It's a delusion, He (they) are aggressive for someone else, in fact, he (they) would be for everyone else too. This rule is not specific to a person or country.