Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn't Be Tied to Funding the Government

Re:Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn't Be Tied to Fund... by motohagiography on Monday November 13, 2023 @06:05PM (#38256592)

While I've believed that developing privacy and encryption tech was ignoring the deeper problem, and it was a poor substitute for using that effort to actually engage with and reform the institutions we use privacy tech to protect ourselves from, when you are up against anonymous cynicism like earmarking continuity of government bills, the only thing left to do is shrug and become a cypherpunk maximalist. Life is too short. Might as well ride this civilization into the ground.

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Re:Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn't Be Tied to Fund... by peltier on Monday November 13, 2023 @07:13PM (#38257142)

-and it was a poor substitute for using that effort to actually engage with and reform the institutions

Well said. Its amazing that the IC has lagged behind on this and not made sufficient efforts to regain the publics trust.

-the only thing left to do is shrug and become a cypherpunk maximalist. Life is too short. Might as well ride this civilization into the ground.

This is the saddest story ever monitored. Many share that sentiment and has for decades.

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Re:Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn't Be Tied to Fund... by panarky on Monday November 13, 2023 @08:19PM (#38257661)

> cypherpunk maximalist

Way past time to get assassination markets back in the popular imagination so that a new generation can re-litigate the usenet flame wars of olde, amplified by a factor of ten thousand.

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Re:Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn't Be Tied to Fund... by SenAnder on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:43PM (#38259281)

> developing privacy and encryption tech was ignoring the deeper problem

It was not. Even with privacy-respecting government and laws (and corporations), it is important that mass surveillance isn't easy, or it's virtually guaranteed to happen.

Stealing is illegal, yet you don't leave your cash savings on the windowsill.

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