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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by api on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:33AM (#37871069)
Modern panopticon level surveillance is not deployed through weakening encryption. It's just built right into platforms and apps and people willfully install it because it gives them free services and addictive social media feeds.

You don't need to weaken encryption to spy on people. You just have to give them a dancing bunny and to see the dancing bunny they must say yes to "allow access to contacts" and "allow access to camera" and "allow access to microphone" and "allow access to documents" and ...

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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by nonrandomstring on Friday October 13, 2023 @06:23PM (#37876268)
> In addition the more we adopt and make use of cloud command and control architectures the more surveilled we become, because it becomes trivial for anyone with access to the cloud provider's internals to tap everyone's behavior.

Spoke about this last night in London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcWIQALtOtg

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