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Right. So in the past it took massive amounts of money and manpower to watch relatively small groups of people. Now those same groups organize on easily accessi
by IgorPartola 5y ago
Right. So in the past it took massive amounts of money and manpower to watch relatively small groups of people. Now those same groups organize on easily accessible and sometimes straight up public websites so it takes less money and manpower to monitor virtually everyone. What power is the government trying to get back? Seems like achieving their goal got easier, not harder.
- jacquesm 5y agoThe bulk of the manpower for the Stasi was the good little people of East Germany ratting on each other.
- bayindirh 5y ago> Seems like achieving their goal got easier, not harder. Nope. E2E communications have buried a lot of stuff proverbially underground. The leaks are reduced. Hence, governments lost the ability to monitor as they liked. There's much more and invisible communication going on when compared to the past, and it's much more detailed and direct. Also its volume has increased exponentially. So monitoring that stuff got way harder, and they want the easy way back.
- IgorPartola 5y agoSo read the actual contents of this story: https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-may-have-missed-about-the-trial-that-cou-1848103297 https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-may-have-missed-about-the... Notice the part about where the conspiring here took place and how those conversations were discovered and revealed. Sure two people can communicate over E2E but if you want to start a movement (something that actually would matter rather than just complaining to your bestie), you need to open it up to the public which turns out also opens up the door to people spying on you.