The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working People

Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by jascii on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:55PM (#21650796)

I would argue that all of these things can, and have been done using improvised weapons. Organising any of these things without some form of secure communication seems utterly impossible.

Contrary to popular believe, many totalitarian government do not shy away from arming their citizenry. History is rife with paramilitary death squads. What we do see in virtually all totalitarian governments is efforts to control the means of communication. I think this should tell us something.

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Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by alwillis on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @07:24PM (#21653609)

>Organising any of these things without some form of secure communication seems utterly impossible.

The secure communication isn't the problem; it's having the commitment, discipline and the organizational operational security to use it.

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