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Re:NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry by mcphilip on Saturday September 07, 2013 @09:30AM (#6345022)
The confirmation that there can be no expectation of privacy has destroyed a lot of the joy of internet use for me as well. At a more pressing existential level, it's making me despise working in web development. I may never work on a project 'noteworthy' enough to warrant the NSA seeing some use in collecting data from it, but I am firmly in the startup minded 30ish crowd willfully slaving away the prime of my life making tools and sites that encourage people to use and trust this byzantine conduit of an internet thoroughly infested with spooks gleefully abusing power and destroying privacy more and more every day.

Edit: perhaps research and training in security and seeing how I can contribute on that front is the first step back towards being proud of my work...?

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Re:NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry by johnchristopher on Saturday September 07, 2013 @11:07AM (#6345270)
> Edit: perhaps research and training in security and seeing how I can contribute on that front is the first step back towards being proud of my work...?

Well. The open-source tools might be as easy as the professional tools to taint.

Someone training for the CCNA/P-Security or any other certifications is still using the same corrupted conduits :(

William Gibson said this about virtual lights (a novel which deals with bike messengers and data): "In the future, information'll be more secure when written on paper and transported by physical human hands than on the wired."

Which reminds me of this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11325452

And there is work to do : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

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Re:NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry by sroerick on Saturday September 07, 2013 @12:56PM (#6345622)
Hyperboria is a technology that is in it's infancy, and is currently woefully underdeveloped. If you don't like contributing to the development of the Internet, maybe you could contribute instead to another network that runs a little less parallel to the United States?
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