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> Let's treat this as an issue of computer science, not politics. To be clear: for those that are able, advocating for a permanent policy change is the better
by syncerr 13y ago
> Let's treat this as an issue of computer science, not politics.
To be clear: for those that are able, advocating for a permanent policy change is the better solution. Government access to all user data could become a requirement to run a legitimate business. Even if we were able to convert everything to an anonymous P2P traffic-flooded web, we would still live in fear (will the 5th protect you?).
- ekianjo 13y agoYou need both legal protection and technical solutions. So that the legal contact can allow for the technical solutions for full secure traffic to operate. That is why we need both activists and engineers.
- ForrestN 13y agoThis cannot be overstated. As a practical matter, and in any kind of near term, political solutions are drastically more likely to bear fruit. But more radical, long term solutions are still important! An exciting prospect.
- jaekwon 13y agoI disagree somewhat. I see politics as merely trailing behind actual physical surveillance ability. The politics are introduced as post-facto justification to lubricate the process, but aren't needed. We can slow the expanding encroachment by introducing say the Amash bill, but the real solution must come first from defensive technology, secondarily protected by policy.
- ferdo 13y ago> advocating for a permanent policy change is the better solution. Policy changes come about because of technical reality. Better technology is always superior to government policy. By all means, pursue both the technical and political solutions. But creating and distributing tools has proven to be the better method of change than depending on governments.
- syncerr 13y agoSomeone stated it below, but "the legal contract [must] allow for the technical solutions". If the government makes security illegal... then what? As much as we might not want to depend on the government, we're subject to policy.
- ferdo 13y agoWe're only subject to the policies that they can enforce. If a technical solution is found that routes around government's ability to employ surveillance and interference, there's not a lot they can do about it until they catch up. If security is outlawed, only outlaws will be secure.
- nitrogen 13y agoGuns and badges go a long way in enforcing something that is technically "impossible."
- unimpressive 13y agoI remember reading somewhere that in Columbia a kilogram of cocaine costs a dollar. If you can manage to get that dollar across the U.S border you basically just printed money. Meanwhile if you want to buy that cocaine in the U.S you'll pay a lot of money for it. Moral of the story: Illegalization doesn't make things impossible, it pushes their cost up high enough to make them economically infeasible.