-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/2016 04:01 PM, juan wrote:
On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 15:41:04 -0500 Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
Universal surveillance enables abuses of State power only when access to collected data is restricted to State sanctioned actors.
Yeah well. The obvious assumption(fact) is that surveillance is carried by the state and its proxies and only they have access to the data. Which is exactly what's happening now.
Oh, and not only they have access to the data, they also have access to the guns. So the more data they have, the more damage they can cause.
"The guns" tend to backfire: Common or garden variety capital murders by police officers in the U.S. has re-ignited the Civil Rights movement, for example. Putting that big black genii back in the bottle is a job for covert political warfare via propaganda, deception and PsyOps. The outcome of every revolution I have studied was determined before the first shot was fired. The real damage enabled by mass surveillance in State and Corporate hands includes: Fine tuning and targeting of propaganda in near realtime to achieve maximum influence. Early detection and proactive response to disrupt and co-opt "trending" populist and radical factions. Automated social network mapping and behavior analysis in support of political warfare.
When everything becomes searchable by anybody, the inability of State sanctioned actors to conceal their activities or effectively lie about their history and motives will inhibit their potential for destructive action.
Sorry, I'm not buying that. First, the idea that joe-six-pack is going to have access to the pentagon's satellites is sheer nonsense. And even if he somehow did he wouldn't have access to the the guns. So what good would the information be?
Not so much Joe Six Pack as Jane Citizen Journalist. Up to a point of diminishing returns, every time "the guns" are used against her, a dozen more of her appear. As the point of diminishing returns for that function approaches, civil uprisings in response to State violence become likely.
"Power over others" depends in large part on secrecy,
Power over others depends on guns.
The most important single item of State propaganda against populist and radical politics: Power over others depends on guns. Any challenge to State power that depends primarily on armed conflict has a single, certain outcome: Victory for the State. Again, the outcome of a revolution is determined before the first shot is fired. Building a large base of popular support and a network of ideologically committed cadres is the key to success, and the principal objective of State political warfare is to prevent this from happening. Naive wannabe anarchists who want to "go directly to guns, do not pass the hat, do not collect 200 supporters" only provide the State with a handy means of discrediting its more /effective/ opponents.
while "powers of self determination" depend largely on free and open access to information. Information is required but information alone will get you nowhere. Or more likely it would get you in jail.
In the long run, the secrecy problem will take care of itself, because the abuses of power it enables have already killed the State: At least, in the sense that a trans-national State hard wired for self destruction, defending that program by any means necessary, is "already dead."
Well, the only thing missing to prove that claim is...evidence.
Evidence means nothing without context; information that is not actionable is not intelligence. Step one, know your adversary. Who and what IS the State, and why is it so toxic? Some clues from the Harvard National Security Journal here: National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Final.pdf :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJW3Cu2AAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0LmSAQAK4nS9NJ3k87dH8ODw3eH0O+ oNxhX6us0RKkq04jo8bn4mi/DzdzPmWYfxsyhJlgx2Gzp8+0/wWL35Qu7Tcj87la gfTMwUYIw6an+y1xztn4DhTYRliRybLj6egs9JWLNLm7y3Rp80Z5GmtPhpeiCjwQ XGq+qZzepKak9LDGSVogrPDlfKMlH8hvJpccf5TWKoNU+R+RaHLOlS0cmz5grNwd JfNv3opRZisueeqme93MlWBS2c4Y9fAT4/U+lZoLt/Ye8R+wTI4RbPxcHVtfFruh I9jUrqoZNZ9BQTv6NZDuWU4laMFFXKmXF+nVW+JXx3Y40DXm8qb65bw2lvyLQ3QF wD6Ht+TFCWuSYPAO9qsC8LN4APtRKUP7/pkmHSRMtroGLjgUx6xo5/gYSVl6XDwE fQG2578tNUsSNRt0skXJysXz/NShc07MAQGR7/+uejvcUPry1CcSsbbpYfSIk7UI Xmk6MVLlx6RPUxH1rJNO7PVEf515ro+67xHx2d/Bv/ABFT9cNXZ/c962nglp+T5D 6ILcvaJRqVhvgUcAy8psVbawmYWN55DMceM9KOM5eAIEWvW3XHFaj7+uwKBycZT8 SxImCUW/MSPhugvTbx/SliIKS7hnUG0BpcjwvsRD+5JHF+Tc7JNSH978qXRJzt+0 z42HWVWYmP/rv4feXy5u =MmU2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----