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Imagine being able to send text domestically or overseas without the government reading it. Must have been a rough time before online networks existed.
by TeeMassive 4y ago
Imagine being able to send text domestically or overseas without the government reading it.
Must have been a rough time before online networks existed.
- loup-vaillant 4y agoYou're closer to the mark than you intended. The internet provides a huge paradigm shift: a while ago the printing press allowed people to read. That spurred the renaissance. Now the internet is allowing people to write. Before the internet we wouldn't even have this conversation. It's a much more isolated world, where knowledge and propaganda comes mostly top down. Compared to today, rough times indeed.
- TeeMassive 4y ago> The internet provides a huge paradigm shift: a while ago the printing press allowed people to read. That spurred the renaissance. Now the internet is allowing people to write. This is a great quote. I'm gonna steal it from now on :)
- loup-vaillant 4y agoI got it from Benjamin Bayart. Last time I checked he was president of https://www.ffdn.org/en https://www.ffdn.org/en
- GekkePrutser 4y agoI think this was pretty much the status quo in the past. Because governments didn't have the capability to open every letter especially unnoticed. If they really wanted to target someone then yes. For everyone, no.. This is why this development is so dangerous in the digital realm. Because there is no longer any limit to how much data can be collected and processed.