[cryptome] Re: Surveillance Free Day Part 1
- From: John Young <jya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:27:44 -0400
Not to diminish the author's dedication to evade the peepers,
but every program and device cited has been either reportedly
compromised or shown to have vulnerabilties for it.
The two experts he consulted, as with most honest security
wizards, Jon Callas in particular, have been publicly candid
about weaknesses of publicly available digital protection
against official compromise, either by design, that is by
wiling co-operation with authorities, or by ineptitude and
desire for successful marketing in an era of ridiculously
profitable scare'm and secure'm -- also called a national
crisis. As with the recent NSA agoniste.
This practice of orchestrated anxiety is hardly new, to be
sure, scaring and securing is as old as, well, as old as those
who invented the language of warning and security, spurious
and confectionary it may be in warding off more than imaginary
goblins, usually home-brewed. Media no less or more than
military have a bottomless stakehold in national terrorism
and national anti-terrorism -- twins of national security since
nations and *their* twins, religions, were imagined to be
superior wealth accumulators and concentrators via
best-living at the top heirachies rather than communities
of more or less equality.
Heirarchies would not endure without protection racketing.
Arming the protectors and disarming the bottom of the
apex is essential, both by terrifying arms and by secrecy,
another set of inseparable twins.
Speaking of twins, metadata is a curious invention, reminds
of metaphysical obscurantism to empower the meta-believers
and disempower the meta-disbelievers.
At 01:28 PM 7/29/2013, you wrote:
For a quick look at how metadata can be abused,
look
here:
<http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=579_1375101344>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>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, Im
effectively asking to be put on a terrorist
watch list. Its the digital equivalent of
hanging a big IM 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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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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All my email is subject to viewing by the
Panopticon ::
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::
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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