<p dir="ltr">I agree with this, theoretically. But the problem is that the people who build this technology are not forced to put such means in, and even if they were, there will always be exemptions and plain cheats.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In Cryptonomicon, one of the characters is a decendent of Holocaust survivors, in a quest to make sure there is never another one. The point he makes is that it's impossible to educate people against hating others and trying to genocide them. The only way you can prevent that is to make sure the potential victims be ready to strike back.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This point stuck with me very long.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 15:38 Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Quoting Ehud Kaldor (<a href="mailto:ehud.kaldor@gmail.com" target="_blank">ehud.kaldor@gmail.com</a>):<br>
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> I was thinking more about "little brother" environment, which does not seem<br>
> so fictional since about a year plus ago...<br>
<br>
I commend to you the thoughts of science fiction author David Brin on<br>
this subject, including his non-fiction book _The Transparent Society_.<br>
Brin's basic thesis is that a modern democratic society cannot hope to<br>
ban surveillance or to pervasively defeat it, but can tame it by making<br>
it accountable, including measures taken to ensure that people who are<br>
being snooped upon can know _who's doing the snooping_ (and being<br>
notified contemporaneously that this is happening). Basically, he says<br>
that a achivable and sufficient goal is to remove the asymetry from the<br>
information-gathering, e.g., by 'sousveillance' upwards against the<br>
elites.<br>
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<a href="http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/search/label/privacy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/search/label/privacy</a><br>
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