Honestly, I'm rather angry. An innocent man hacked to death in the street, and the murder is being used by politicians to openly further the goals of the security services, who may have
actually recruited the murderer. Cynical fucking
bastards.
Authorities can in practice permit themselves to do anything they damn well want, I'm not under any illusions otherwise. But I want to do everything I can to try to make sure that neither they nor anyone else are able to perform mass surveillance - because I know damned well there is now no other way of stopping such grossly horrendous violations of everyone's inalienable rights to privacy. They lie routinely; they have no oversight, no accountability, no limits, no apologies, no truths, and absolutely no hope of reform inside a system that is not even prepared to acknowledge what it is doing is wrong, let alone stop it.
Talk is cheap, but I will state now that no legislation of any kind will stop me trying to develop, publish, advocate and deploy strong encryption and anti-surveillance techniques everywhere that I can: places where such techniques are illegal are uniformly the places that need it most. Maybe trying to bring a little more 'civil liberty through complex mathematics' is all I can do: but it's something.
Authorities can in practice permit themselves to do anything they damn well want, I'm not under any illusions otherwise. But I want to do everything I can to try to make sure that neither they nor anyone else are able to perform mass surveillance - because I know damned well there is now no other way of stopping such grossly horrendous violations of everyone's inalienable rights to privacy. They lie routinely; they have no oversight, no accountability, no limits, no apologies, no truths, and absolutely no hope of reform inside a system that is not even prepared to acknowledge what it is doing is wrong, let alone stop it.
Talk is cheap, but I will state now that no legislation of any kind will stop me trying to develop, publish, advocate and deploy strong encryption and anti-surveillance techniques everywhere that I can: places where such techniques are illegal are uniformly the places that need it most. Maybe trying to bring a little more 'civil liberty through complex mathematics' is all I can do: but it's something.