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> To fix it properly, we need to fix it everywhere, and for everyone in the world. Assuming they will say one day "ok, we fixed it", how can we ever trust them
by frank_boyd 13y ago
> To fix it properly, we need to fix it everywhere, and for everyone in the world.
Assuming they will say one day "ok, we fixed it", how can we ever trust them again?
- pekk 13y agoThis line lost me. They're making the perfect the enemy of the good. I would rather see effective means in some states than ineffective means in all states.
- AnthonyMouse 13y agoThe answer is to not have to trust them. Unwarranted surveillance has to have two components. Proving that it has been stopped is effectively impossible, but what the legislative component can do is to delegitimize it. Passing legislation makes the statement that unwarranted surveillance is unacceptable, and paves the road for people to implement measures to thwart it without allowing the government to use the law to threaten them. Then we have to set out to thwart it. Build into the network the technology to make surveillance as difficult as possible. Decentralization, end-to-end encryption, perfect forward secrecy, etc. etc. Because that's how you can trust them again: When the math proves they can't do it anymore.