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Easy to do nothing, it's easy to be cynical (+get a headline). IETF Internet guardians say "pervasive monitoring is an attack": https://datatracker.ietf.org/do

Easy to do nothing, it's easy to be cynical (+get a headline). IETF Internet guardians say "pervasive monitoring is an attack": https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrell-perpass-attack/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrell-perpass-attac... $52.6 Billion yearly budget is feeding the attacker: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-... Seems a political reform force is needed or nothing will change. SOPA/PIPA gave us the taste of blood..

crassus 13y ago
The only way to be effective is to make politicians lose their jobs. This means coalescing behind single-purpose organizations meant to win reelection for anyone supporting a minimalist tech/privacy platform, and defeat for anyone else. Tech workers today are too caught up in mainstream political bullshit - "parental notification laws for abortion are basically rape" and etc. - to actually do this.