Last week FBI Director James Comey at the Boston College conference on cybersecurity stated:
While that quote in the article is taken out of context, it is even more disturbing when taken in context. The included video puts the quote in context where Comey is arguing against widespread access to strong encryption with the public. There are other quotes included as well that are just as disturbing, such as:
Even our communications with our spouses, with our clergy members, with our attorneys are not absolutely private in America... ...In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel any one of us to testify in court about those very private communications.
Is this the "adult conversation" on encryption he was getting ready for last year?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:17PM (7 children)
I believe it's self evident that panopticon is inevitable; the only question is the matter of who will have access to it. Since information is power, if the government has access but the people don't we will be subjected. If everyone can know everything about everyone, including those in the government, then power will be balanced.
Bearing that in mind, I think that the TLA's are aware of this, and are attempting to stay ahead of the curve by collecting more data on us than we can on them. This will likely be unsustainable.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:19PM
*Subjugated*
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday March 17 2017, @12:01AM (3 children)
I believe it's self evident that panopticon is inevitable
With that attitude, maybe. But all this equipment requires massive amounts of money, and The People could put a stop to it if they really wanted to.
If everyone can know everything about everyone, including those in the government, then power will be balanced.
A society with no or little privacy isn't one worth living in. Let's not embrace such nonsense.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 17 2017, @02:55AM (1 child)
What do you suggest? If this goes too far and gets too integrated, stopping it will require essentially committing electronic suicide, blowing out huge swathes of the electric grid with homemade EMP weapons.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @08:13AM
But does anyone actually have EMP weapons that will destroy rather than disable sufficient quantities of electronic devices to render digital society crippled?
The majority of permanent EMP disruption I have read about required it to be absorbed into the power grid and cause a voltage surge through equipment assuming 110-220V without fuses or current limiting devices.
This means most wireless devices would be safe. Any unplugged devices would be safe, any devices running on solar, generator or other off-grid power systems would be fine (not enough wire to inductively couple and cause a sufficient surge to disrupted/destroy.)
Maybe my understanding is wrong, but pretty much everything I've read has stated the sort of movie-esque 'everything goes offline thanks to an EMP' actions shown, even from an airburst nuke, would not cause the level of disruption spread in the media made off 50s era assumptions about electronics.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday March 17 2017, @06:35AM
As technology progresses, surveillance only becomes cheaper and easier. Also, it's not up to me what the TLA's spend my money on.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @02:02AM (1 child)
I wanted trump to win because I thought he was most likely to be overthrown, I still hope that is true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @04:19AM
Then what? Mike Pence?
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