Apocalyptic Net Loses of Mass Surveillance
Apocalyptic Net Loses of Mass Surveillance
Mathematical prof that surveillance harms x 1K more than it could potentially help.
... Politicians either don't understand or don't want to understand that once an encryption is broken, it is equivalent to there being no encryption in the first place. And their ignorance... And I truly want to believe that that's their ignorance. It causes such disproportional oppression, that I am stupefied that not enough people scream about it.
Still there is a possibility that it is not ignorance. There is a possibility that it is just a political stunt. A sort of red herring, to mislead you into not asking the questions of proportionality. And that they are actually just trying to take control over us all.
the politicians are merely mouth pieces and useful idiots to enable such draconian measures and the author is right in believing that it's not all merely ignorance.
my own experience as as software engineer tells me that the most gifted engineers are gung-ho about these measures because it appeals to their intellectual curiosity and the affects upon humanity for such intellectual pursuits doesn't enter into the equation at all; even the ones who are sympathetic to leftists causes don't care so long as their mortgages are paid and they can afford to put their children into the best schools.
expect no help from the tech bros and tech lefty's alike.
I guess I'm a tech lefty and yeah its honestly a bit teriffying and I dont get why almost no one I meet does not care for it.
i think it's crazy high salaries; it insulates them from the problems that the rest of us have have to deal with in our lives.
i first noticed it around the tail end of the earlier "IT half" of my career when my payrate started to push up against six figures; now at over 20 years as a software engineering that's solidly past that boundary (like most well connected software engineers are); the opinions/outlooks/expectations of my colleagues have become so toxic to me that i've decided to go back to IT permanently.
also: the work seemed to get more and more evil as i progressed in the software engineering half of my career. i'm convinced my current gig is a net detriment to humanity and society like all my software engineering gigs were and i'll be taking a 56% pay cut to avoid the that profit-seeking-evil in a non-profit organization that teaches people who can't afford to dedicate their lives to a college degree like a 19 year old from the suburbs can do.
a big part of me is sad that i will never become rich like my current colleagues; but i think that my psychological well being matters more and it's a union job so there are other perks that help compensate for it.
This is pretty far from a proof of any variety. I think the spirit is there and the ideas are great. Spend a little more time on the execution, maybe tie in some Quine, and I think you’d have something.
What a surprise.