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Privacy is a political/legal problem, not a technology problem.
by imnotlost 5y ago
Privacy is a political/legal problem, not a technology problem.
- hornej 5y agotechnology is a political/legal problem. the printing press, gunpowder, the internet. technology has always been in the middle of political/legal problems. can't be evil > don't be evil.
- finite_jest 5y agoIt is a technological problem too. Telegram has a much better UI/UX than Signal, and not having end-to-end encryption by default is part of the reason.
- transpute 5y agoWire has a good UI/UX with always-on E2EE.
- argomo 5y agoA cryptopunk would say just the opposite: that privacy is a technical problem that, properly solved, alleviates us of political concerns. Both views seem to miss the mark. The crypto folks see mathematical certitude while ignoring the dynamics of the social/legal context in which it must operate. By contrast, those who argue that "artifacts don't have politics" would absolve technologists of an ethical duty to consider how their products impact society. In short, privacy required both technical and legal protections as well as a society that demands it as a fundamental human right
- finite_jest 5y agoRight, and a standard response to cryptopunk fundamentalism is pointing at rubber-hose cryptoanalysis [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis