On October 18, 2015 7:18:36 AM Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
Ask not how to do everything you can to reduce State and corporate surveillance of your doings on the Internet. Ask rather, how to do everything you can to make your use of the Internet damage the interests of State and corporate actors, more than their surveillance and responses to same can damage you.
Very well said! There are situations where crypto is required. We should do everything we can to help people learn to use it, especially to facilitate their communications when secrecy is absolutely necessary. Yes, it's sometimes fun to encrypt fuck-off messages to the spooks inside lolcats. But I've reached a point where I'm tiring of the cat-and-mouse game 24/7. Encrypting *everything* frustrates them, but to me it also signals that we expect they are monitoring everything without cause or suspicion (in violation of the 4th amendment and many other laws of sovereign nations, worldwide) and we are giving them tacit permission to continue to do so. Those who understand encryption and can use it correctly are still a relatively small minority. I feel like "encrypting everything" just because *I* can, while the majority of the planet has never even heard of Whit Diffie or elliptical curve, sort of defeats the purpose. We can protect ourselves (and in some cases, at this point in time, encryption is mandatory to our personal safety - but should not be used as false security), but dismantling the surveillance machine that captures everyone's emails to grandma, catalogues every single purchase and aids in the perversion of justice (via parallel construction, etc) seems to me to be the nobler goal. Just my .02. -S
We do not pursue "freedom" because it is easy. We pursue "freedom" because it is hard - and should not be.
:D
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