Re:DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash...
by anonsivalley652 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:25AM
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The Conversation (1974)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Marathon Man (1976)
Sneakers perhaps.
Anyhow, I think you're missing the context of what happened in the 60's and 70's that stoked paranoia in the culture and in fiction.
1. CCTIFBI
Only because some morally-flexible activists broke into an FBI field office did they uncover COINTELPRO and quoting Chomksy "40% [of FBI work activities] were devoted to political surveillance and the like"
- Ring and other IoT devices recording to cloud providers evidence of technical crimes. All it takes is law-enforcement getting access for something else and digging around with automated tools in data to round up bodies to prosecute. For example, a small child escaping from a bath without clothes in front of an always-recording security webcam is considered child pornography.
- No-name webcams and other IoT being hacked or manufacturing backdoored to be used for spying, malware injection, packet sniffing and who knows what else.
- As revealed by Snowden, various secret watch lists containing the names of over 2 million Americans.
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Marathon Man (1976)
Sneakers perhaps.
Anyhow, I think you're missing the context of what happened in the 60's and 70's that stoked paranoia in the culture and in fiction.
1. CCTIFBI
Only because some morally-flexible activists broke into an FBI field office did they uncover COINTELPRO and quoting Chomksy "40% [of FBI work activities] were devoted to political surveillance and the like"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/fbi-office-bre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Commission_to_Inve...
Furthermore, in modern times, there is:
- warrantless mass surveillance (NSA)
- license plate readers (LPRs)
- cellphone tower/position tracking
- Ring and other IoT devices recording to cloud providers evidence of technical crimes. All it takes is law-enforcement getting access for something else and digging around with automated tools in data to round up bodies to prosecute. For example, a small child escaping from a bath without clothes in front of an always-recording security webcam is considered child pornography.
- No-name webcams and other IoT being hacked or manufacturing backdoored to be used for spying, malware injection, packet sniffing and who knows what else.
- As revealed by Snowden, various secret watch lists containing the names of over 2 million Americans.