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by benevol 9y ago
> Ms Rudd is meeting with representatives from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and others at a counter-terrorism forum in San Francisco. Well, these will simply be the companies whose tools we won't be using anymore. The World
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by benevol 9y ago
> We need some way to get out of the disinformation bubble There is even something that came a long time before IT and the resulting disinformation bubble: Very unhealthy and materialistic values, deeply embedded in our current culture.
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by benevol 9y ago
The reason for this level of inequality is this: Our culture tells us that our motivation to do better (or more) work should be the power to dominate others (being rich is just that). And that's just what humanity will have to change i
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by benevol 9y ago
Success like Facebook's cafeteria workers' only happens with bad luck?
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by benevol 9y ago
> encryption is a check on government overreach It's necessary, but certainly not sufficient. There are tons of ways that the 5-eyes nations' mass surveillance agencies can get even to those who do use end-to-end encryption.
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by benevol 9y ago
I had acquired a green card a few years ago, then it got revoked b/c I hadn't settled quickly enough in the US; I'm sure my subconscious was somehow at play at that time. Today, I certainly wouldn't make any effort to ac
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Turkey police hold Amnesty rights activists at digital security workshop(bbc.com)
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by benevol 9y ago
Wouldn't opening several "Private Windows" achieve the same situation? What are the differences?
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by benevol 9y ago
> Their mental health complex/industry seems really dysfunctional from outside. Most definitely. But it's just a reflection of how much American culture values money/power/domination. US health-care is simply dominate
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by benevol 9y ago
It actually goes in both directions: Statistics have shown for a while now that psychopaths or sociopaths are drawn to positions of power and are therefor overrepresented in those positions. On the other hand, excessive power (== money) oft
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by benevol 9y ago
> Among the options Germany is considering is "source telecom surveillance", where authorities install software on phones to relay messages before they are encrypted. That is now illegal.
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Germany Plans to Fingerprint Children and Spy on Personal Messages(fortune.com)
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by benevol 9y ago
> Scientists hope that the new insights into liver development and performance will yield novel therapies for the more than 100 disorders that afflict the organ, many of which are on the rise worldwide, in concert with soaring rates of o
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by benevol 9y ago
Well, that was pretty clear more than a decade ago. Proprietary technology has a monopolizing effect in capitalism. Since technology by definition has an exponential growth rate of efficiency, the monopolizing effect grows with it.
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by benevol 9y ago
In Sunde's opinion, people focus too much on what might happen, instead of what is happening. He often gets questions about how a digitally bleak future could look like, but the truth is that we're living it: "Everything has
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Pirate Bay founder: We’ve lost the internet, it’s all about damage control now(thenextweb.com)
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UBports Has a Lot of Work This Summer for Letting Ubuntu Touch Live On(phoronix.com)
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by benevol 9y ago
You're right. I rather meant to say "people were manipulated into buying...". It's always the same, people don't understand because they lack education and some rich guy will take advantage of that. The movie "
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by benevol 9y ago
It's feature, not a bug. Remember the sub-prime mortgage crisis? People were made to buy homes they couldn't actually afford. It's the American way of doing capitalism, and people should have gotten used to it by now.
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by benevol 9y ago
Under the new procedures, consular officials can request all prior passport numbers, five years' worth of social media handles, email addresses and phone numbers and 15 years of biographical information including addresses, employment
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US approves tougher visa vetting, including social media checks(reuters.com)
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US might extend cabin laptop ban worldwide, top official says(bbc.com)
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by benevol 9y ago
How easy would it be for Zuck to just update the TOS to say "encrypted content is against our TOS" and ban you? Zuck can't add any encrypted content to your personal profile, which means he doesn't make any money off you
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by benevol 9y ago
> plausible deniability that's gained from a shared VPN Browser and device fingerprinting have become very powerful making VPNs not a very solid solution.
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by benevol 9y ago
Don't you think that comments like this one reinforce the subjectively perceived feeling of powerlessness? Who are you benefiting by posting this? (I'm not saying this is the case here, but there are those people who want us to ac
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Leaks 'expose peculiar Facebook moderation policy'(bbc.com)
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Switzerland votes to phase out nuclear power(bbc.com)
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U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe(thedailybeast.com)
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by benevol 9y ago
> "I have nothing to hide, why should I care?" The fact that so many people adhere to this statement indicates the point at which society currently is in its downward cycle: Pretty much at the beginning. Once the general statem
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by benevol 9y ago
> So taking away secure encryption from the rest of us is just security theatre Even more importantly, it's a power grab of the powerful (which mostly translates into "the rich", and vice versa) aiming to further dominate

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