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One of the more insightful passages in the unabomber manifesto (worth reading, especially for technologists) details how technology-driven encroachments on our
by ahelwer 6y ago
One of the more insightful passages in the unabomber manifesto (worth reading, especially for technologists) details how technology-driven encroachments on our freedom are inevitable because to stop this people must be continually motivated to avoid a bad thing happening to them, which will never be as powerful as how others are motivated to achieve a good thing happening to them. Privacy advocacy at this point is nearly 100% defensive; it really is exhausting to keep up with the various was in which it is being eroded, let alone participate in actually stopping this erosion from taking place.
- k1t 6y ago"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." – John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election for Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1790. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philpot_Curran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philpot_Curran