It's just technology: Some will use it for good and some will use it for evil. Isn't that the mantra we've been repeating since forever within the hacker community?
It's not just technology. It's technology given exclusive right to a single party. The state can watch you but you can't watch the state.
> It's just technology: Some will use it for good and some will use it for evil. Isn't that the mantra we've been repeating since forever within the hacker community?
This smells like a troll.
Why? Seriously, the same argument has been used to defend BitTorrent and various other tools that might be used to circumvent laws.
Yes...if you strip out so much context for the similarity to become meaningless.