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Is it really? I can think of approximately one political battle the tech crowd won (the Crypto Wars), to dozens of lost ones. Meanwhile, the battles where a str
by 4bpp 1y ago
Is it really? I can think of approximately one political battle the tech crowd won (the Crypto Wars), to dozens of lost ones. Meanwhile, the battles where a strong technical solution was fielded are looking fairly good even when the political side was surrendered with nary a fight - I can still easily torrent most books and software, download scientific papers, emulate modern consoles and securely exchange data with people in any country less locked down than North Korea.
The cliché about how you should not approach political problems with technical solutions is recited all the time in these threads, but nobody ever presents evidence for this claim. It seems like a meme that is disproportionately useful for those who are confident in their abilities to win any political contest.
- swiftcoder 1y ago> I can still easily torrent most books and software, download scientific papers, emulate modern consoles and securely exchange data with people in any country less locked down than North Korea You can also go to jail for any of the above, should your particular government authority decide to throw the book at you. Technical capability is necessary, but rarely sufficient.
- fsflover 1y agoHow are they going to find someone in I2P network?
- swiftcoder 1y agoFirst off, not everyone is using I2P to hide their torrenting. If they were, I'm pretty sure we'd have to worry about a well-funded actor (like the RIAA of old) flooding the network with new nodes to be able to expose users. It's instructive to read the I2P threat model, https://geti2p.net/en/docs/how/threat-model https://geti2p.net/en/docs/how/threat-model, as it details a number of potential attacks within reach of a large corporate or state-level adversary