Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Schneier on Security

Re:Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Sch... by aeonik on Monday August 26, 2024 @10:09AM (#41357276)

Snowden, Assange, China, Russia it's all uncorrelated and a distraction to the "Nothing to hide" argument.

You can review it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

I will also add: that hiding has a very successful track record (for all life forms) over time, because you don't ever really know what the future holds.

I also have a pet theory that there is underlying physics/information theory here that explains this (similar to thermodynamics/entropy, might even be the same phenomenon) ->

   too much concentrated asymetric information becomes a single point of failure, and yields brittle systems.

Stated a different way:

   As the dependencies on a single process rise, the probability of the entire system failing approaches 1.

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Re:Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Sch... by jokoon on Monday August 26, 2024 @04:17PM (#41361500)

wow you're so smart

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Re:Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Sch... by aeonik on Monday August 26, 2024 @04:40PM (#41361864)

Because I noticed that lying to people constantly, and mass surveillance controlled by a small parties is probably a bad strategy in the long run?

I think evolution figured it out a few billion years before me. I think it's just easy to forget.

Of course I could be entirely wrong. Just a hypothesis of mine.

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