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> Laws are the nation's source code Not really. Laws are the nation's monitoring server's source code. Further more, the monitoring server is running on a noto
by mseebach 11y ago
> Laws are the nation's source code
Not really. Laws are the nation's monitoring server's source code. Further more, the monitoring server is running on a notoriously buggy, laggy and leaky interpreter, and most of the systems interfacing with the monitoring server uses arcane, often proprietary, and always poorly documented protocols.
Amazingly, most of the time it pretty much just works, although the interesting (and severe!) bugs are all surfaced through user reports, never from a monitoring alert.
But yeah, not the sort of thing you'd want to emergency patch a lot. Unfortunately, no staging environment exists.
- Silhouette 11y agoUnfortunately, no staging environment exists. I think a lot of civil liberties advocates would argue that mass surveillance has been implemented before, and we do know what kind of society can develop as a result, and that is one of the reasons why those people campaign for civil liberties today.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoTo follow the analogy. This is why changes usually undergo serious code review prior to being pushed to production. This bill underwent none of that - in fact it reimplemented with bug compatibility a broken module that had been removed from production previously.