Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance

Re:Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance by jokoon on Friday June 05, 2015 @11:39AM (#9666142)

Another cost is the trust people put in technology. This could really result in ugly situations. What I'm scared of is that it could turn into a situations where people believe they have privacy, and it would be impossible to prove otherwise. You'll either end up paranoiac or it would effectively result in a society of political control.

I wonder if it's possible for an investigator or a hacker to use suspicious behavior to lure the NSA and prove that they were being under surveillance while they are effectively innocent. It would be difficult to present it, since it would require legal and technological explanations.

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Re:Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance by swombat on Friday June 05, 2015 @11:43AM (#9666167)

Basically, we are in some kind of technological singularity, at least for most people. Humans on average are no longer smart enough to understand and cope with the technological developments around them.

Even if you knew everything that was going on (as Snowden largely did), and you could prove that it's evil, most humans don't have the intellectual skills required to understand it, no matter how calmly and clearly you try to explain it. It's beyond their ability to understand.

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