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It's a funny paradox that China, the "regime that feels threatened by the open exchange of information," can only continue surviving by actively gathering more
by kevin_rubyhouse 14y ago
It's a funny paradox that China, the "regime that feels threatened by the open exchange of information," can only continue surviving by actively gathering more information than any other government. It seems like they get caught more often than any other spy agency, but I feel safer over-estimating them and contributing this frequency to the volume of hacking campaigns they run. They get caught more because they do more. The gov. has probably the best candidates working for them from their enormous population.
- pasbesoin 14y agoIt's less of a paradox -- or at least, less of an occurrence -- than you might think. For example, in the U.S. we have everyone blatting their "social network" and correspondence all over media not only public but subject to massive government data mining (Facebook, Twitter, et al.). At the same time, increasingly we cannot even learn what laws and legal interpretations are being used to "govern" (or, "rule") us. Particularly with regard to that same data mining, but far from exclusively that. Our "regime" is fearful of exposure to public knowledge, but is busy scarfing up as much public and private data as possible. P.S. Substitute "government" with "commercial", in the above, and you have the other half of the picture, here. Corporations building data towers and relationships that remain largely opaque to those they study.