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False dichotomy in the name of injected identity. Strengthening against state actors is strengthening against stalkers.

• blakesterz 10y ago
  >> Strengthening against state actors is strengthening against stalkers. Yeah, maybe, usually... but certainly not always. You can certainly strengthen against stalkers in different ways than you can against state actors, I think? I guess I've not thought this through much, but I don't think of this as a false dichotomy. These things over lap in a bunch of ways, but then also we can defend against each in very different ways. Things that keep out stalkers won't stop a state actor, though most likely anything stopping a state actor would keep out a stalker. Most of us don't need/want to defend against the NSA, but we need to defend against adversaries with skills equal to a stalker. It may even be that we can't really defend against a state actor if we end up in their sites, they have essentially unlimited money time and people to throw at us. It could be that just one extra password stops a regular person though? I took his point as being one of priorities. This reminds me of that Google Chrome master password thing from several years ago.
• mjg59 10y ago
  That was the point I was making in the post, yes.
• mindslight 10y ago
  Not necessarily. If you start thinking about p2p versus centralized retrieval methods, leaking your access pattern directly to Wikipedia might be nicer than leaking that access pattern to friends who have a personal interest in you. (FWIW I think this post is an exercise in pouring gasoline on flamebait).