Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015)
by austincheney on Thursday August 13, 2020 @02:21AM
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It's not that nobody saw them coming it's that nobody cared enough to produce better technology.
When a few key entities are central points of information distribution it is very simple to monitor everything. End-to-end encryption is helpful, but it isn't enough, becaues no effort is required to know where to find everything. If you really want to lower the probability of state monitoring you need end-to-end encryption and point-to-point communication without a central service provider.
Major information providers and social media have no motivation to solve that problem. Removing them from the communication channel between you and your grandma instantly renders them irrelevant.
Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015)
by jrexilius on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:43PM
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Very much this. Anyone who has tried to sell better defensive products to the market knows that the issue is not with the difficulty of doing things better, it's the interest and will of the market.
When a few key entities are central points of information distribution it is very simple to monitor everything. End-to-end encryption is helpful, but it isn't enough, becaues no effort is required to know where to find everything. If you really want to lower the probability of state monitoring you need end-to-end encryption and point-to-point communication without a central service provider.
Major information providers and social media have no motivation to solve that problem. Removing them from the communication channel between you and your grandma instantly renders them irrelevant.