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Corporations serve at the pleasure of the government. Big corporations serve as single chokepoints for extortion or blackmail (via threats to business, legal vi

by sneak 3y ago

Corporations serve at the pleasure of the government. Big corporations serve as single chokepoints for extortion or blackmail (via threats to business, legal via regulation or otherwise) to put in backdoors. All power structures are your enemy. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv... For the purposes of privacy and human rights, corporations and the state are integrated in almost all large industrialized nations. Businesses are too busy being businesses to fight city hall.

FredPret 3y ago
Not everything is a “power structure”. Some people actually like to get shit done and organizations are a means to that end.
- sneak 3y ago
  If you get a million people together, you'll get a million different ways to "get shit done". Deciding which ways to do things and who does what is a power structure. Add in billions of dollars in quarterly revenue, and you have a power structure that will willingly integrate itself with the state to preserve those cash flows. This is why iMessage is backdoored and isn't really e2ee.