Re:How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism
by gcanyon on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:43PM
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As I replied to someone else, it's important to understand that the only reason the government can surveil so much information is because people don't bother to encrypt their communications. If they did, the government would have access to very little, because government-resistant is readily available.
It has never been easier for the government to access your speech because never before has such a large portion of speech been recorded.
Police 30 years ago would kill for the data they have access to now. Encryption slightly slows down how quickly the amount of information they have access to is growing, but it can't remotely complete with how quickly the amount of available information is growing.