Re:The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs
by miles on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:32PM
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> "[T]he company’s proposition that if anyone has access to data, then many unauthorized people probably will have access to that data is false. This response reflects a lack of faith in good governance..."
Hmmm... now what could possibly have given them such a disturbing lack of faith in "good governance"?
> "There are some people who have access to the nuclear launch codes, but 'Mission Impossible' movies aside, we’re not particularly worried about a slippery slope leading to lots of unauthorized people having access to those codes."
The mere existence of the nukes (much like the existence of encryption backdoors) is certainly dangerous enough:
Re:The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs
by josephcsible on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:27PM
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tl;dr: "Having any truly private means of communication is bad since terrorists, pedophiles, and the January 6th people benefit from that. Don't worry about backdoored encryption since the government is mostly good and probably won't spy on you anyway."
Hmmm... now what could possibly have given them such a disturbing lack of faith in "good governance"?
NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...
Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
Mass surveillance in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...
NSA: Constitutionality, legality and privacy questions regarding operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Const...
List of CIA controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies
Domestic espionage sharing controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Domestic_espionage_s...
> "There are some people who have access to the nuclear launch codes, but 'Mission Impossible' movies aside, we’re not particularly worried about a slippery slope leading to lots of unauthorized people having access to those codes."
The mere existence of the nukes (much like the existence of encryption backdoors) is certainly dangerous enough:
When the U.S. Air Force Accidentally Dropped an Atomic Bomb on South Carolina https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-the-us-air-force-accident...
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
60 years ago today, this man stopped the Cuban missile crisis from going nuclear https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/10/27/23426482/cuban...
39 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905796/nuclear-war-1983-stan...
Whether you agree or disagree with the article, this is 100% true. We (the tech community) have the same problem with Mozilla.