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The logic that anybody we can't see should be a suspect would then target our grandmas with landline phones who buy their groceries with cash or live in nursing
by kornhole 3y ago
The logic that anybody we can't see should be a suspect would then target our grandmas with landline phones who buy their groceries with cash or live in nursing homes. It would be a colossal waste of resources and detract focus.
The methods of the STASI were extremely crude and different to what is available today. They relied on human informants and collected lots of paper.
- chimpanzee 3y agoOr they can just filter for age, likelihood of technical proficiency (indicated by such things as education, prior employment, family, peer group, etc), and likelihood of “effective political concern” (or whatever we might call a person’s affinity for independence, skepticism, distrust of authority, knowledge of past authoritarian transgressions, knowledge of current authoritarian capabilities, and access and willingness to non-technical resources, eg time or money, needed to act on their concerns)
- kornhole 3y agoHere is where it kind of comes full circle on mass surveillance. If you do not have those data points, you cannot filter on them. Even if someone was once sloppy on real ID social media platforms, old data is less useful.