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Regarding smartphones, I wonder if we’ve just lost a grip on what it means to have privacy. Even our expectations for privacy have degraded and eroded over time

Regarding smartphones, I wonder if we’ve just lost a grip on what it means to have privacy. Even our expectations for privacy have degraded and eroded over time. We just carry this device with our life encoded in a flash chip with keys to cloud access. Life. Everything from emails to our walking gait, photos, text, history, health records, etc is stored on this one device. Dictators of the past would have a field day with this infrastructure. “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the people of future would willingly carry a surveillance device that they depend on everyday to communicate to others and carry with them everywhere?” We need to move towards OSS and OSH phones with extreme urgency. We also need to get more people involved in Ham Radio.

hughrr 5y ago
Why ham radio? That doesn’t make sense. There’s no privacy there by law. It is by nature a completely non anonymous medium. Not only that if a country shuts down its comms the hams are all on a nice list for their shit to be confiscated. Im not a ham because of some romanticised dystopia avoidance. It’s just fun to make things that you can talk to people on :)
- systemvoltage 5y ago
  Ham Radio does not depend on internet backbone. In the extreme, you can communicate across the world with a few basic electronic components which can be built at home. Sure, government can listen to it but it's trivial to encrypt (illegal on Ham bands) if you're oppressed by the government. > nice list for their shit to be confiscated. I am not sure if this would go well in the USA.
  - hughrr 5y ago
    It’d go really well for the government. You’d just end up with a lot of dead hams. Disorganised morons with AR15’s vs professional army. I know who wins that one.
brokenmachine 5y ago
Governments have wilfully not kept up with the technology, so they can spy on it all. Imagine if the government suddenly decided that they would open and scan everyone's physical mail into a permanent database. Why should email be any different?

hughrr 5y ago

Why ham radio? That doesn’t make sense. There’s no privacy there by law. It is by nature a completely non anonymous medium. Not only that if a country shuts down its comms the hams are all on a nice list for their shit to be confiscated. Im not a ham because of some romanticised dystopia avoidance. It’s just fun to make things that you can talk to people on :)

systemvoltage 5y ago
Ham Radio does not depend on internet backbone. In the extreme, you can communicate across the world with a few basic electronic components which can be built at home. Sure, government can listen to it but it's trivial to encrypt (illegal on Ham bands) if you're oppressed by the government. > nice list for their shit to be confiscated. I am not sure if this would go well in the USA.
- hughrr 5y ago
  It’d go really well for the government. You’d just end up with a lot of dead hams. Disorganised morons with AR15’s vs professional army. I know who wins that one.

brokenmachine 5y ago

Governments have wilfully not kept up with the technology, so they can spy on it all. Imagine if the government suddenly decided that they would open and scan everyone's physical mail into a permanent database. Why should email be any different?