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I hate to write crappy comments, but my general reaction to this can be summed up with ":-(" There are terrible changes in the government that feel inevitable.
by imh 11y ago
I hate to write crappy comments, but my general reaction to this can be summed up with ":-("
There are terrible changes in the government that feel inevitable. Whenever these changes are beaten/voted down, we all celebrate that we've won, then just a couple years later, they are reintroduced. This seems to repeat until it passes. At this point it feels like our complete loss of privacy is inevitable, and that at once terrifies me and deeply depresses me. There's nothing that I can do to prevent this. Not in the long haul.
:-(
- late2part 11y agoIt's not inevitable. It will happen if we let it happen. "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." J.S. Mill
- Selfcommit 11y agoFurther - I would say it needs to happen. Not because I'm excited about the loss of privacy - but because until we lose that privacy, encryption won't become something relevant to the average person. Encryption is a solution that expects "bad actors". When government succeeds in overtaking privacy, better encryption will prevail.
- jlgaddis 11y agoOne could argue that the (U.S.) government has already succeeded in overtaking privacy.