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And so it begins. People who care about a strong US tech industry need to oppose government snooping.
by andyl 13y ago
And so it begins. People who care about a strong US tech industry need to oppose government snooping.
- goldfeld 13y agoOpposing a strong US tech industry seems like a better bet for non-americans righ row. If the tech world were distributed across nations in a more balanced way the public would have more leverage today.
- andyl 13y agoI disagree. The world needs a 'data safe haven', and it is much better for everyone if that haven is a strong country like the US. Distributed/Piecemeal efforts to maintain data security will be easy to kill.
- louthy 13y agoHow is the US a 'data safe haven' when the data stored by organisations within it are fair game for the US government without due process?
- Ygg2 13y agoI understood grandparent's post as asking for a country with lot of political power and clout (like US) to be a data safe haven. Unfortunately I can't think of a single state that has enough power and would want to keep data safe. Russia is basically dependant on US, China is not interested in keeping it safe, etc.
- flyinRyan 13y agoWhat on earth are you talking about! Centralized is always easier to kill than distributed. I guess what ever startup or company you work for doesn't have to worry about scaling.
- andyl 13y ago"Centralized is always easier to kill than distributed." Tell that to Al Quaeda. You wanna depend on Ecuador/Cuba/China to protect your data? Yeah, they've got your back.
- flyinRyan 13y agoI can't believe we're having an argument here. First of all, if you are a US citizen then most of what you've been fed about "Al Quaeda" is nonsense. Second of all, you don't appear to understand what distributed means. I wouldn't be depending on Ecuador/Cuba/China in isolation but rather everywhere. Before you waste anymore time you should probably read some articles on wikipedia.
- AJ007 13y agoI have a better suggestion, make government snooping impossible. The reason that the NSA's behavior is so shocking is because Americans believed it was other countries, such as China, who possessed a vast surveillance state.