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> Surveillance-resistant systems are not an answer to authoritarianism. > > Private companies do not have freedom of operation in authoritarian regimes. Compan
by jjav 5y ago
> Surveillance-resistant systems are not an answer to authoritarianism.
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> Private companies do not have freedom of operation in authoritarian regimes.
Companies can never be surveillance resistant, they'll get court orders and follow them.
The only surveillance resistant (not surveillance-proof obviously) technologies are distributed, decentralized ones implemented in open source.
You're right that political activism is ultimately the only good answer. But it's not either/or, it is still quite useful in parallel to also develop, maintain and popularize decentralized systems as much as possible.
- acdha 5y ago> Companies can never be surveillance resistant, they'll get court orders and follow them. There’s a range on this - ask Apple about the FBI – and there are still several levels of usefulness: designing systems which don’t store data unnecessarily, forcing things to follow the legal process rather than quietly turning data over, and notifying the user when this happens. Obviously not all of this is possible to varying degrees but not all authoritarian states are the same, either.