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Perhaps it's often like this but there is fewer people to shape the front-page today.
Perhaps submitter could explain the submission?
[0] Technical aspects of the surveillance in and around the Ecuadorian embassy in London - Details about the man hunt for Julian Assange and Wikileaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoT4lPV96uw
There's plenty of content in the link, and afaik we are all still being spied on by utterly unaccountable forces.
Should I? It's what's being used to catch murderers, kidnappers and terrorists. Its use is being controlled by very serious judges/courts.
'Controlled' is an overstatement: https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liber...
Australia is expanding anti-protest laws [1,2], the UK police is helping blacklist union organizers [3], and sharing information on disabled people and activist with private companies [4,5]. And as China's influence on Australia and New Zealand expands, there's a very real risk surveillance abuse will get even worse. And of course if you dare turn surveillance around on those with power, you can expect consequences [6]. There are precious few countries where surveillance is only used to catch murderers and kidnappers. And even in those, you're helping set up suppression infrastructure that a malicious government can use if they ever gain power in the future.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/20/queen...
[2] https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/nsw-antiprotest-laws-are-part...
[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43507728
[4] https://www.themeteor.org/2019/07/27/gmp-shares-disabled-pro...
[5] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/20/police-intelligen...
[6] https://www.businessinsider.com/tweets-that-got-people-arres... - 10th tweet
I think that number is down to ~0 after 9/11. The more relevant distiction nowadays is between countries that are performing mass surveillance and those that are not.
It just takes one leak to show that one does, but confirming the opposite seems impossible to me. You'd have to know everything about every detail of the whole government.
This was about a decade ago. Not sure if it's still being used, but I think it may be, at least in one country.
Obviously, what I worried about was: The same technical solution could then be sold by less scrupulous sales people to less democratic countries and then misused badly.
I made sure there were a number of undocumented steps involved in setting up LI that couldn't be done without involving me or one trusted developer directly.
It was also purposefully architected to handle a scale of wiretapping of about 1 in 10000 people nationwide.
That 1:10000 ratio was the the ratio I got "off-the-record" from someone in the first western customer country. I was okay with that ratio, given that the country was democratic.
To clarify: I took pains to make sure that the mechanism could only be used to extract a fraction of the traffic flowing through our hardware, and that the selectors had to be preselected in a pretty meticulous way.
Basically I spent a bunch of time to make sure to deliver the exact minimum of that what the country's government requested. There was never any pushback. I think our counterpart in this case was legimitely just trying to solve crime, as opposed to performing passive mass surveillance/recording.
My main point here is that LI can make sense, if it is done done at small scale. Manual work needs to be involved. It needs to be a little cumbersome.
Anyway the end result is everything will be encrypted. The real battle is forcing ISPs and governments to not log device locations and giving real teeth to it. Something that is fairly doubtful.
You're right - because of Google's efforts nowadays everything is going to be encrypted when it comes to web traffic. That's both good and bad.
And to clarify: I actually do trust the legal systems, in this unnamed country.