Well I certainly don't trust you and your private army's oversight of me, and I'm sure you don't trust me and my army's oversight of you.
So we make an agreement and build a third-party that has oversight over both of us.
Or do you expect me to trust you?
Re:Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones
by JoshTriplett on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:20PM
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You seem to be attempting to paint everyone who disagrees with you as someone who stockpiles baked beans and ammo in a bunker. You also seem to have no concept of any middle ground between "absolute trust in the infallibility of government" and "radical anarchist".
Let's make this concrete, instead. Anyone can, today, using off-the-shelf software, store information such that only someone with a passphrase can access it, and such that all the computing power in the world would take centuries to access it without the passphrase.
In such a scenario, I don't expect anyone to "trust" anyone, or to need to. (Modulo the issue of trusting the software to be properly implemented, which is a separate discussion but has some plausible solutions.) Instead, I expect that the software in question will prevent unauthorized access, as it was designed to do.
You seem to be taking government descriptions at face value, despite documented evidence to the contrary.
Consider the possibility that the government you seem to place absolute trust in is not, in fact, perfect.