<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
My personal decision is to get off of the Internet to the degree it's<br>
possible.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Some part of my mind can't help but wonder if this isn't the true objective of all this surveillance, or at least a significant part thereof.<br><br>It's impossible to prevent all leaks; the public would find out something before long. And when it does, certain elements - inherently opposed to the establishment's interests - will conclude that they must withdraw from all the resources the Internet offers - depriving themselves of substantial advantage. Perhaps they try darknets or something else, but the Internet's power is in its massive network effect; no other network in the world is able to come close to its sheer audience size, or its collective breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise.<br>
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