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Isn’t this simply imaginary, where in practice all the FBI has to do to up the ante is to request military-grade interception from a willing foreign counterpart
by the_optimist 5y ago
Isn’t this simply imaginary, where in practice all the FBI has to do to up the ante is to request military-grade interception from a willing foreign counterpart?
- tata71 5y agoTier of which requires....expense.
- anonporridge 5y agoThe point of promoting and using privacy respecting software is not necessarily to make it impossible for law enforcement to get what they want. It's to make it somewhat expensive and require targeted probes. You simply want it to be cost prohibitive to engage in mass surveillance on everyone, because that is an immensely powerful tool of totalitarian oppression that get really bad if we happen to elect the wrong person once.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoI don't care if they spy on me; they probably have a good reason to! But I do care if they spy on everyone, so I make it hard to spy on me.
- the_optimist 5y agoI agree with you on the level of my person, and naturally flag that this economic argument is extremely poor policy. It’s quite unclear that the marginal cost is non-zero, or even flat by person. One might reasonably conclude we are already each inside a high-resolution springing trap, waiting for the moment we find ourselves athwart the powers that be. Imagine in physical space where the local police could simply call in foreign air strikes upon domestic citizens, with only economics to prevent otherwise. We must have transparent and firm laws, reformed at a fundamental level.
- upofadown 5y agoCan't the FBI do a Pegasus style remote access thing on an appropriate warrant themselves?
- the_optimist 5y agoSeems like it. And can they also do it without an appropriate warrant [by asking someone else]?