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The FBI’s Most Controversial Surveillance Tool Is Under Threat(wired.com)
7 points by rt4mn 4y ago|2 comments
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Thats fair enough. Googling for my username takes you pretty quickly to my name as well. I don't think I did a good enough job in my initial reply emphasizing that from my perspective a nickname that you only used in certian social con
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by rt4mn 4y ago
> That said, as someone who prizes ethical behavior, it's not possible to practice this and remain wholly honest without some sort of ethical loophole The primary "ethical loophole" here is that there is no viable ethical
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by rt4mn 4y ago
It looks like they have not passed the spending bill itself, rather they have just reached some consensus on how to order and vote on a bunch of amendments, many of which the piece itself notes are likely to fail. Why the heck does there ne
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by rt4mn 4y ago
If it where purely ideological I would not be buying things online at all. I like buying stuff online because its convenient, and Cryptocurrency is the most practical way to buy stuff online while still protecting my privacy to some extent.
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by rt4mn 4y ago
> because I care about my privacy and dont want a huge list of my financial transactions available to visa/mastercard/paypal/the government, and I don't want to schlep to the gas station to buy a prepaid debit card wi
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Food, Electronics, web hosting, gifts, etc. you know. stuff. I'm normally a cash in person guy but sometimes I'm feeling lazy and just want to order a big box of candy and be pleasantly surprised and mildly guilty when it arrives.
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by rt4mn 4y ago
> The problem with that is, only illegal transactions happen between parties that don't trust each other. This is patently untrue. When I buy something with cryptocurrency, its not because I don't trust the merchant or am doing
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by rt4mn 4y ago
I skipped the survey section. Did it add anything interesting to the paper? The findings showing that five of the six repair shops they went to violated their users trust and snooped on devices was bad enough for me.
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by rt4mn 4y ago
I'm not sure thats a fair reading of this persons argument, since I did deleberatly exaggerate their position.
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by rt4mn 4y ago
I pay pretty damn close attention to the ACLU. > We do privacy lobbying at the municipal and state level and our local ACLU affiliate has been a huge, huge ally. I disagree with them on a whole range of issues, but when it comes to priva
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by rt4mn 4y ago
> (you're misconstruing what I wrote for rhetorical value, but if you look at what I actually claimed, these quotes fit). Your right, I am! Aint rhetoric grand? Its such a powerful tool, and 1984 was such a sublime and impactful exa
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Their interest is in their bottom line and avoiding regulation. Pretty much any company that has a lot of users creating accounts will be impacted by even the most milquetoast privacy regulation to some degree or another, and I guess micros
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by rt4mn 4y ago
> specifically speaking 1984 is not a reflection of current reality for Americans, and you seem to agree with that Of course 1984 is not a reflection of current reality. it was not a reflection of current reality back when it was written
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by rt4mn 4y ago
I do worry about being killed by the government. I worry about everything related to government abuse of power and surveillance. I wear my tinfoil with with pride, thank you very much. On a more serious note (in case it was not clear that I
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by rt4mn 4y ago
This is exactly why Microsoft has been throwing money at lobbyists at the state level as well, pushing shitty "consumer privacy bills", both because they don't like strong legal privacy rights at the state level, but also in
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Microsoft has been a particularly bad actor in this space. They have been hiring lobbyists to advocate at the state level for shitty "consumer privacy bills", specifically because they want to forestall and kneecap federal legisla
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by rt4mn 4y ago
1984 was published in 1949. It is partially science fiction . Tricorders are not literally the same as cell phones, either, but if you ignore the parrelels you are doing a disservice to the important role and lessons of good sci-fi. The th
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by rt4mn 4y ago
The Biden Administration? This is a bill introduced in an entirly different branch of government. AFAIK Bidens got squat to do with this
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by rt4mn 4y ago
The ACLU also does a lot of great privacy work, so donating to them is also a good idea if you care about this stuff. National ACLU does a lot of great work, but I personally suggest giving to your local affiliate https://www.ac
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by rt4mn 4y ago
I agree privacy request shouldn't enable mechanisms of denial of service type attacks against companies. But I don't think that justifies allowing companies to put in place fees to access personal data. If cloudflare required peop
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by rt4mn 4y ago
I would be interested to hear why you think it has no chance in Senate.
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Always good to see links to direct text of bills. Reading the tea leaves a bit, Speaker Pelosi seems dead set against it and I dont think will allow it to be moved as is. she has publicly stated that "states must be allowed to address
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Maybe your right that the 14th overrides the 35 year minimum (I can see legal arguments going both ways), but until you get a court ruling to that effect then in practice the limitation exists.
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by rt4mn 4y ago
I agree with you on this one. the person you are replying too is correct in that it does not matter how much you learn or teach yourself, getting a new number is far from trivial, whereas with getting a new anonymous email account, if you
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by rt4mn 4y ago
> It uses phone numbers because phones already have contact lists, stored clientside, keyed by those numbers. This makes sense for contact discovery, which is important for normal people who just want a chat app that works. But there are
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Give people the option to pay. I would gladly pay $100 one time fee if it meant I could avoid having a phone number associated. https://jmp.chat is a great work around but I would rather just have an email address or ideally no
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Zero Punctuation did a hilarious and informative video on this topic in one of his "Lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee" series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB3jOD2wjUc
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by rt4mn 4y ago
... they could, you know, not collect the data, or if they do only keep it in an encrypted format, and protect the privacy of their consumers? Crazy thought i guess.
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by rt4mn 4y ago
He was not wrong. Microsoft has been "activists" that have been actively lobbying multitudes of states for years pushing for consumer privacy protection laws that really do meaningfully improve peoples privacy. Of course, that&#x2

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