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It’s well known that the FBI had dossiers on political opponents that were used to silence them, or attempt to silence them (Daniel Ellsberg, Martin Luther King
by mturmon 7y ago
It’s well known that the FBI had dossiers on political opponents that were used to silence them, or attempt to silence them (Daniel Ellsberg, Martin Luther King). What you’re proposing would merely be the same concept with a different leverage mechanism. I’m sure private interests would also have the same ideas.
- 0x8BADF00D 7y agoIt is a lot easier to collect this kind of data as well.
- mturmon 7y agoYou're right, and that's where the parallel I offered kind of breaks down: the digital-domain hacks can scale much more readily than the older ones could, and even at the targeted level, digital information-gathering may be less risky.