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I am totally opposed to the idea of complete state surveillance but I would like to share an alternative point of view. Perhaps DRIPA and IPA will push technolo
by _pdp_ 10y ago
I am totally opposed to the idea of complete state surveillance but I would like to share an alternative point of view. Perhaps DRIPA and IPA will push technology forward so that encryption becomes widely adopted to the point where it is no longer practical to collect and process data at mass. While the state will still be able to target (not good but happens anyway) privacy will simply shift in another realm through adoption of better hardware and software encryption technologies, P2P networks, Bitcoin, etc. In such environment the security industry will flourish.
- gpderetta 10y agoUntill unlicensed encryption becomes illegal. Seeking a technological solution to a political problem is not going to end well.
- _pdp_ 10y agoHistory has shown that the only solution to political problems was technology.
- toyg 10y agoI'm curious to learn what the technological solution was to the XVI century religious wars across Europe.
- gpderetta 10y agothe Iron Maiden, clearly.
- _pdp_ 10y agoNot historian but I would imagine it was the agricultural revolution. :)
- petre 10y agoIt was the Renaissance and the French Revolution. And yes, the printing machine helped the spread of ideas. But so did Voltaire, Thomas Paine, the Quakers, etc. You cannot have progress and freedom without humanistic disciplines.
- wu-ikkyu 10y agoNot sure about a technological solution, but the technological cause of the 16th religious wars was arguably the printing press.
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- toyg 10y agoYup, the cause. The solutions were all political.