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Surveillance Self-Defense
- katabasis 10y agoKudos to the EFF for putting this together. I've been sending it out to less-technical friends as a reference and plan to use it as a resource to help teach activists & concerned citizens how to protect themselves (with an understanding that complete privacy/security is probably not possible). Newt Gingrich, a potenial member of a future Trump Cabinet, was making noises over the summer about restoring the House Committee on Un-American Activities[1], so I think the dangers of government surveillance and overreach are very real. [1]: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/14/politics/newt-gingrich-house-un-american-activities-committee/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/14/politics/newt-gingrich-house-u...
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- snvzz 10y agoUsed to be a decent reference site until they destroyed it with horrid trendy web design. It's unreadable, now.
- pmoriarty 10y agoTry reading it in a text-based browser like w3m.
- unethical_ban 10y agohttps://ssd.eff.org/en/index https://ssd.eff.org/en/index Just one click away.
- snvzz 10y agoI still get the same annoying layout with that link.
- hackuser 10y agoImagine what a neo-authoritarian President might do with the enormous surveillance capabilities the IT industry has created, and from which there is no practical opt-out.
- gozur88 10y agoWhy imagine? Isn't that what we've had for a decade or two?
- jakobdabo 10y agoThat's why we have Constitution so that even allegedly neo-authoritarian presidents must follow its letter, if only the overreaching intelligence agencies respected it too. But no, they have their own secret interpretations of laws, secret courts, secret policies, and so on.
- b_emery 10y agoThe other practical result is that a deviation from the Constitution can take a long time to correct.
- hackuser 10y agoPresidents have a poor track record with the Constitution. For example, the Constitution says only Congress can declare war, but that hasn't happened since WWII.
- DamnYuppie 10y agoYeah. They have been skirting that by using the "Supreme Commander in Chief" bs. So the president can happily mobilize the entire military without congress, I am not a fan of this.
- Retra 10y agoThere's also the "this isn't actually a war (waged against a sovereign nation), it's just counter-terrorism" angle.