[cryptome] Re: Surveillance Free Day Part 1

  • From: Gary Wallin <garylwallin@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:28:11 -0500

For a quick look at how metadata can be abused, look here: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=579_1375101344


The more you try to protect yourself, the more you will come under surveillance and the less privacy you will have. The Panopticon is an evolutionary (or perhaps evilutionary) change in our social behavior. The simple expectations of privacy that we grew up with in the 1950's no longer apply. We will be assimilated and will have to adapt. It is our Humanity that we have to protect, not our privacy.







On 7/29/2013 8:59 AM, In Harms Way wrote:
Gary, you maybe want to change your name to Gary Borg Wallin.

We have nothing to hide - but we have something to PROTECT!

Let's pull the plug on them.

IHW

Gary Wallin wrote, On 29/07/2013 15:49:
On 7/29/2013 6:28 AM, John Young wrote:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/surveillance-free-day-part-i.html




An entertaining take on the preposterous idea of going surveillance-free.

I like the salient commentary: "Both Jon and Gary pointed out one of the central paradoxes of my day -- that, by downloading Tor and HideMyAss, by paying for software in Bitcoin, wrapping my phones in foil, and by turning my head into a giant glowing orb, I'm effectively asking to be put on a terrorist watch list. It's the digital equivalent of hanging a big "I'M SKETCHY" sign around my neck."

As we learned from the Borg in Star Trek -  Resistance is Futile!

Surveillance is part of our nature now and we must learn to live with it. Better that it be used to freshen the air and inform the public than become a tool of those that would oppress.

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All my email is subject to viewing by the Panopticon :: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon ::
Except in the imaginations of the netizens there is no real secrecy or privacy 
on the Internets. The powers that be have been elevated to lofty positions of 
near omnipresence. Enjoy, adapt, and survive.

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