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by torified 7y ago
>The only way around this is to develop tools and solutions. It's an interesting thought experiment what those tools would be like. Maybe something like freenet mixed with ipfs over a wifi mesh network? Not sure how that would work
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by torified 7y ago
"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom, we need to keep that in mind at all times" - Bill Hicks
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by torified 7y ago
IANAL but it is interesting that most Australians don't realise that police already don't need a warrant to access phone and internet data. >Reports emerged in the Australian media ‘revealing’ that the AFP was accessing phone a
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by torified 7y ago
I'd guess MDMA would be the most common.
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by torified 7y ago
Yes, definitely.
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by torified 7y ago
Even if all that is true, who cares? Also, all libertarians are stupid? He exposed the US government illegally spying on their own citizens (and lying about it), at massive personal risk. He's a hero of true democracy. That's all
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by torified 7y ago
On the plus side, all the IT jobs we're losing here in Australia might come back when the US starts routing all their traffic through here so they can spy on US citizens!
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by torified 7y ago
>It taught me an unpleasant fact of people's psychology: people have such astonishing status-quo bias that they will rewrite the past to match the present. Very perceptive. What blows me away is that even knowing the past, they stil
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by torified 7y ago
>taking the paranoid rants of a barely literate high school dropout at face value? Have you heard Snowden speak? I've not heard many people in my life who are more educated and eloquent.
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by torified 7y ago
But that's not a problem! The bill said that it wouldn't create any systemic weaknesses! So just let us do it, ok. But we'll put you in jail if you talk about it.
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by torified 7y ago
Those are all great points butit's still unbelievably scary to think of a government that is storing all digital communications of all its citizens forever. You'd have to be super naive or ignorant of history to think any differen
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by torified 7y ago
Also those Ring doorbell cameras that are being watched by over 200 police departments.
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by torified 7y ago
Some Australians care but all of these horrific laws are getting passed with bipartisan support.
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by torified 7y ago
Cashless can also be anonymous, but that won't be presented as an option of course. You are so right about the innocent until proven guilty.
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by torified 7y ago
Sure, if it's anonymous cryptocoins. But I don't want the government able to monitor every $2 purchase I make. Please state what all the positive ramifications you are referring to are. All I see is essentially some extra convenie
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by torified 7y ago
No, that could never happen... /s See: Wikileaks Iraq body count.
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by torified 7y ago
Australia has already passed draconian secret mass-surveillance laws, and also is part of five eyes so everyone (including American citizens) are subject to draconian mass-surveillance which is shared with the US when their data goes throug
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by torified 7y ago
The leaker should have sold the data to third parties, then it would have been ok. /s
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by torified 7y ago
I hope you're not right about that, but I fear you are. I also underestimated how much the average joe doesn't care about privacy. They'd give it up completely for a tiny bit of convenience. Nobody cares enough to desire a pr
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by torified 7y ago
This is so different to bitcoin. It's a centralized service. There's no reason for them to not just use an SQL database instead of a completely neutered blockchain. The whole point of bitcoin was to avoid that centralization. I kn
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by torified 7y ago
It's a pity that a country needs a Nazi holocaust to realize that mass surveillance is a bad thing. The US will learn, as will the UK and Australia.
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by torified 7y ago
Finding all crime is not the goal. As the KGB saying goes, "Everyone has committed a crime, it's about who we decide to prosecute".
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by torified 7y ago
The entire article is to explain how the new anti-encryption laws augmented the existing laws, removing the need for a special journalist information warrant. So it was exactly these horrible laws that allowed them to stomp through and do w
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by torified 7y ago
But, but, but... the bill specifically says that they're excluded from the spying! So they're totally immune from that risk! /s Yes, I'll laugh when their pants inevitably fall down. I wonder what the reaction will be.
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by torified 7y ago
Dat seems like it could be a good way for those infosec people and others that don't like youtube to share their videos. Is there any way to stream video using OBS via dat?
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by torified 7y ago
Can you share on dat via tor?
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by torified 7y ago
It's good that people have some knowledge that the spying is happening now, but what has really changed? Everyone is still being spied upon, only now people seem to have a sense of inevitability about it.
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by torified 7y ago
*google
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by torified 7y ago
The internet promised so much, but is being ruined by corporations and governments. I can't help but feel the ruining is accelerating. I hope the infosec community can come up with some kind of decentralized way to actually share free
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by torified 7y ago
I don't see it anywhere. Where does it list your personal info?

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