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The final defense is always to change the government (one way or another). When we need to resort to technical mean we have lost.
by raincole 4mo ago
The final defense is always to change the government (one way or another). When we need to resort to technical mean we have lost.
- smalltorch 4mo agoTrue, I always wonder how that would actually play out. The geeks would likely be the elite class force to tumble it if it ever became necassary I reckon. >That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
- andunie 4mo agoThe opposite is true.
- throw10920 4mo agoBy this you mean that the first line of defense should be to change the government, correct? If so, I'm pretty sure you're right. Technical solutions to social/governmental problems seem like they're making those problems worse due to actively rechanneling energy that could be used for awareness/activism into technical workarounds.
- andunie 4mo agovoting is just a suggestion from a slave to the master
- oska 4mo agoI completely agree with you, and it's strange to see you downvoted on a technical forum Technology is what has always precipitated political change
- chadgpt3 4mo agoWhich technology caused the French revolution?
- krapp 4mo agoThe printing press and the guillotine.
- chadgpt3 4mo agoBefore that they didn't know how to kill people?
- krapp 4mo agoYes. Before that they didn't know how to kill people.
- seanhunter 4mo agoSo the guillotine (15th century [1]) and printing press (invented in 1440) [2] precipitated the French Revolution (1789)[3]? It’s a theory for sure. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
- iamnothere 4mo agoWould-be revolutionaries need secure, reliable comms even more than the average person.
- chadgpt3 4mo agoPGP
- iamnothere 4mo agoGood for protecting the message itself, but it does nothing for metadata. These days the metadata is what kills you. (Who talks to whom, when, and how often reveals enough to press the drone missile button, apparently.)
- Bender 4mo agoOpenPGP + SMTP as a starting point as email can reach many and Thunderbird makes OpenPGP happy clicky simple. The body includes instructions for the E2EE chat servers to use. Metadata trail ends there. Other circles of friends are joined in by other means. E2EE ejabberd (OTR+PGP+OMEMO) servers switched up after everyone is on the first outer layer of chat servers. Old servers are wiped. Of course all of this assumes nobody is silly enough to use a cell phone or all of this is futile. Everyone is using a laptop they paid cash for and a clean install of a generic minimal install of Linux and Coreboot running a script to make everything ephemeral and the OS nearly immutable. No security distros as they have all been infiltrated, just a vanilla simple Linux and a script.
- r_lee 4mo agowhat...?
- JuniperMesos 4mo agoPGP is not a very effective software suite for encrypting actual messages people want to send to other people, because it's a decades-old tool designed for email workflows that arguably never worked particularly well and is not well-suited to how people want to communicate today. Chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp that include end to end encryption as a matter of course are encrypting far more messages between humans than PGP for emails ever did.
- verisimi 4mo agoChange the governance. Both red, blue and the corporate sides are supportive of this.