Infiltration/Exfiltration

rysiek rysiek at hackerspace.pl
Wed Jan 22 09:14:39 PST 2014


Dnia wtorek, 21 stycznia 2014 14:17:07 Troy Benjegerdes pisze:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:32:53PM +0100, rysiek wrote:
> > Dnia poniedziaƂek, 20 stycznia 2014 23:29:46 Troy Benjegerdes pisze:
> > > Let me posit that we need humans that act more like ethical beings, that
> > > have insights that go beyond the logic, rules, and reason that seem to,
> > > well, govern the keeping of secrets. I see a disturbing trend towards
> > > people who appear to be more human rule-and-emotional-reactivity
> > > execution
> > > units than empowered beings with free and unpredictable thought and
> > > discernment.
> > > 
> > > The great thing that Snowden did was get more of the general public
> > > engaged
> > > and involved, and for the various types of infiltrators to have any
> > > lasting
> > > effect, there must be cypherpoliticians, architecting secure legal codes
> > > and blocking legislative trojans.
> > > 
> > > Assassination Politics is an interesting armchair quarterback game, but
> > > I
> > > think what we really need is some of that theory applied to Election
> > > politics, with some down-in-the dirt wrestling with campaign finance.
> > 
> > Oooooh. Oooh. "I just had a brainwave", to quote Chief Inspector Hubbard.
> > 
> > How about use the very same mechanism as assassination market, but for
> > voting? Betting on who will win the next election, generally or in a each
> > district, etc? Creating cash incentives not for politicians (well, also,
> > they could bet themselves after all!), but activists, or other people
> > that might help get somebody elected? Pooling resources, but not in a
> > candidate's pocket.
> This is a perfect example of "It's hard to understand something your salary
> (or campaign finances) depend on not understanding", cause I never saw this
> until you pointed it out. Fortunately I still have a few braincells that
> fired.
> 
> This is brilliant... Get more money in politics, but in a way the
> politicians can never touch it. Oh sure, some will, but they will quickly
> be strung up by the 'clean campaigns' lynch mob.

Well, ideas are cheap, so if anybody feels compelled to implement that, go for 
it, it's Public Domain now. ;)

> > > We need cypherpunks pointing out the futility of more reactive campaign
> > > finance regulations that plug the holes we saw last year. We need
> > > speech,
> > > and code as speech, and a debate about does the First Amendment cover
> > > the
> > > right to speak in code, and does the Second Amendment give us the right
> > > to
> > > keep and bear a well-regulated open-source drone Militia?
> > 
> > Well, funny thing that. I wrote on it:
> > http://rys.io/en/54
> > 
> > The tl;dr is -- even though traditional RC planes are better-fitted to be
> > used as "terrorist tools" (faster, more load, etc), it's *copters that
> > will get banned first, as they empower people to "watch the watchers".
> 
> Except I get to play the "Farmers need open-source drones to keep those
> anti-GMO terr'ists out" police state card, and watch the competing
> interests tie themselves up in knots while activists download the code I
> use to "Protect America's Food"

"The Police will handle that for you, Dear Farmer. Now hand over the drone 
that you no longer need. You're not a terr'ist, are ya?.."

-- 
Pozdr
rysiek
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