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Pretty tired of seeing people surprised and concerned when they get a look at how the sausage is made like this. Bill Binney in 2002 and Edward Snowden in 2013
by lootsauce 5y ago
Pretty tired of seeing people surprised and concerned when they get a look at how the sausage is made like this. Bill Binney in 2002 and Edward Snowden in 2013 should have disabused us all of any pretense of order and justice in this system.
World governments, Big Tech be like: "We are shocked, shocked! to find back doors and spying in here!"
The two work in tandem to facilitate the needs of each other. This is just the new military industrial complex for an age of hybrid war. Not going away any time soon, no matter how we feel about it.
As pointed out in another post today "A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it" [1] All of the revelations with no recourse or reform lead to what we have now, everyone assumes big brother is watching and thats just how big brother wants it.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27904820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27904820
- shoto_io 5y agoYes. People don't know and most don't care. For example, the EU parliament has just recently passed legislation to allow "providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police." Most people I talk to don't know about this. When they hear it, they're in shock. And then go on living their lives. It's really very intangible to most people. Source: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-european-parliament-approves-mass-surveillance-of-private-communications/ https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-european-parlia...
- sildur 5y agoPeople don't caring about surveillance is more sinister than it looks. Because most people don't care, the ones who do (out of necessity or choice) stick out like a sore thumb. "This citizen here, he shows in the cameras, but doesn't appear to have a cellphone/has two cellphones, let's investigate him!"
- shoto_io 5y agoTrue… Cause: nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right?