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Rubber hoses don't scale. With our technological solution, we make it so that the government can't access 99.9% of all conversations. If they want to access a c
by Taek 10y ago
Rubber hoses don't scale. With our technological solution, we make it so that the government can't access 99.9% of all conversations. If they want to access a conversation here or there, they can use a rubber hose. But if they want to see every conversation in a person's social network (including conversations they weren't directly involved in), then they aren't going to be able to do that anymore.
Technology helps a lot. It brings us from a panoptikon to a situation where enforcement has to be done on an individual basis. That's a big win for freedom in my book.
- Semiapies 10y agoThis is an important point that the author, even in his comments in this thread, has no answer for beyond scaremongering that "the state" will "break" us all. You can't secretly beat everyone with a rubber hose to let you spy on them.