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> For the last couple of years, our team at @stanfordio has been hosting a series of conferences on how to balance the safety and privacy aspects of E2EE prod
by wyager 5y ago
> For the last couple of years, our team at
@stanfordio
has been hosting a series of conferences on how to balance the safety and privacy aspects of E2EE products.
I am not interested in “balancing” anything. This is not a negotiation and it is not open to compromise. The opposite of privacy is not “safety”; it is surveillance. I refuse to use products that actively surveil me behind my back. Consumers deserve products that work for consumer interests, not products that ultimately serve someone else.
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- caeril 5y agoIndeed. However, there is no point getting mad at Alex. He used to be a real hacker, until he sold his soul for mammon at Facebook. Once someone like this makes the transition from hacker to wiping one's ass with the hacker manifesto, there's no turning back, and you just need to accept that their words are hollow. Nothing against Alex. He's brilliant, and you never know if you're offered $XMM to compromise your principles, you won't make the same decision until you're actually in that position. I'm not smart enough to ever be in his position, and I'd like to believe that if I were, I would hold true to principle, but who knows? We're all flawed.
- bluepizza 5y agoThat is a naive and immature point of view. Technology enables crime in terrible ways, and those crimes need to be curtailed. Don't like it? Buy a different phone.