Infinite self parody - 'Techno-Thwarting The State'
Punk-Stasi 2.0
punks at tfwno.gf
Sat Nov 9 14:51:11 PST 2019
On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 21:30:31 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 7, 2019, 05:13:57 PM PST, Punk - Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
>
> [quoting Chuck Hamill in 'From Crossbows to Cryptography'
> "Within a few years, it should be economically feasible to similarly encrypt voice communications; soon after that, full-color digitized video images. Technology will not only have made wiretapping obsolete, it will have totally demolished government’s control over information transfer"
>
>
> This was actually quite perceptive.
As the subject states, it is infinite self-parody. Involuntary self-parody.
Did you get this message I posted yesterday?
https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-November/077494.html
> The key words are "economically feasible". He didn't say it would happen as soon or readily as the economics would seem to have allowed,
he states that in a few year wiretapping will be obsolete. And the claim is a highly stupid joke, flatly refuted by reality.
NEWSFLASH FOR YOU JIM : We live in a global surveillance state thanks to 'cheap microelectronics'.
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