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Pretty weird statement to make. Why are people buying into the drama? The US government funds all sorts of basic research, implementation, and infrastructure wo
by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Pretty weird statement to make. Why are people buying into the drama? The US government funds all sorts of basic research, implementation, and infrastructure work. Modern web would be impossible without government funding. I see no problem with the government funding work on Signal.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoIsn't bribing a commercial app developer different from funding basic research?
- c0nducktr 9y agoYasha Levine has been promoting this view for years now. He doesn't appear to have a complete understanding of the technology he writes about, but still makes these accusations that anything the USA spends money on must be compromised. See: https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ another: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/government-backed-privacy-tools-are-not-going-to-protect-us-from-president-trump https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/government-backed-privac... and another: https://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spooks-a-brief-history-of-the-bbg/ https://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spoo... He brings up some good points, but then jumps to conclusions which don't actually seem reasonable.
- wuch 9y agoI kinda wonder if he will eventually substantiate his claims in book he is working on now: "Surveillance Valley" (planned for release in 2018). Otherwise what he is doing now, with all those grandiose conclusions, seems pretty harmful for actual security and privacy of users.