> Tools of mass everything are already here for more than a decade, ready to deploy and use.
You are forgiven if you have missed it but in the wake of Snowden Google and others have hardened their systems massively.
Signal, Matrix and others are actually making it hard to do dragnet surveillance.
> And when these are used to do an actually good thing (stopping dickpics to minors), everyone wakes up and blames them for the possibility that could always be deployed overnight without any prior notice.
Because boundaries have been overstepped again. This is a constant battle that we software people have with authorities :-)
There has been an informal truce that they leave our devices alone and we accept that they scan the cloud.
Now things are about to change and we'll respond. We've won before and I think we can do it again.
PS: There are always good reasons.
PPS: We won the last big one: Cryptography software was "munitions" and couldn't be exported until someone took it on them to make a book out of it, ship it to Europe and let cryptography people here scan it.
So according to the argument up front terrorists won, and I guess we should have a lot of problems now, but we don't have.
You are forgiven if you have missed it but in the wake of Snowden Google and others have hardened their systems massively.
Signal, Matrix and others are actually making it hard to do dragnet surveillance.
> And when these are used to do an actually good thing (stopping dickpics to minors), everyone wakes up and blames them for the possibility that could always be deployed overnight without any prior notice.
Because boundaries have been overstepped again. This is a constant battle that we software people have with authorities :-)
There has been an informal truce that they leave our devices alone and we accept that they scan the cloud.
Now things are about to change and we'll respond. We've won before and I think we can do it again.
PS: There are always good reasons.
PPS: We won the last big one: Cryptography software was "munitions" and couldn't be exported until someone took it on them to make a book out of it, ship it to Europe and let cryptography people here scan it.
So according to the argument up front terrorists won, and I guess we should have a lot of problems now, but we don't have.