[ExI] The NSA's new data center

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 03:08:29PM +0200, Stefano Vaj wrote:

> Do not take me wrong. I am more than happy with any *practical* measures
> aimed at protecting one's secrets, and/or any non-secret data or

There are plenty of practical measures around. But it doesn't help
if most of them are being made illegal. E.g. masked demonstration?
Illegal.

> communication to avoid red-flagging secret ones, even though I suspect that
> technology is going shift the balance away from the period of relative
> privacy we enjoyed in the last couple of centuries (much less so since

Why would one tolerate video with integrated biometric collection?
Or warrantless collection of cellular position information? The people
who ordered this need to go to jail for a long time.

How do you combat this with countermeasures on user's end? You can't.
You need to made them illegal. It *is* very simple.

> WWII, for that matter).
> 
> What is OTOH detrimental to civil liberties and political change is giving
> to governments more powers, more money, more enforcement tools, more rights
> of inspection, more opportunities for blackmail, to... prevent privacy
> breaches.

Don't forget big data collection agencies like Google and Facebook.
Anything they have NSA does. Via a covenient API, too.