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This kind of response saddens me every time I get it. Every time governments start scaring people about pedo-terrorists behind every corner and start demanding
by st_goliath 6y ago
This kind of response saddens me every time I get it.
Every time governments start scaring people about pedo-terrorists behind every corner and start demanding censorship/mass surveillance/back doors, the standard response from fellow people in tech fields seems to be "this doesn't concern me, I will just do $CIRCUMVENTION".
It utterly misses the point. The issue here isn't a technical one. If a law is proposed that you can see as morally, ethically flawed and outright dangerous to society, the response definitely shouldn't be to laugh it off and pretend it doesn't concern you.
- yoz-y 6y agoWhat are they going to do anyways? Jail everyone? Ban the browser? Encryption can be developed on top of any communication protocol anyways.
- roywiggins 6y agoRequire backdoors in apps available in the Apple and Google App stores. That will steer loads of people away from using e2ee encryption.
- ajmadesc 6y agoWhat are they gonna do, round up ALL the Jews. C'mon it's 1932, nothing like that could happen in less than 10 years!
- pradn 6y agoIt's ironic how the very expertise that makes us technologists able to solve these problem for laypeople, can blind us to the issues that come with having this technical world-view. We shouldn't expect computing to be at the top of people's minds, because they often, rightly, have more dear things to worry about.
- brokenmachine 6y ago>If a law is proposed that you can see as morally, ethically flawed and outright dangerous to society, the response definitely shouldn't be to laugh it off and pretend it doesn't concern you. Especially when we are the experts who are best equipped to argue against it.