Eben Moglen talks about free software that will enable the general public to bypass government surveillance. Also, here is a second video with a speech by Mr. Moglen, followed by a small round table discussion.
Good video Dev. Questions need to be asked about internet privacy and anonymity.
If we sit back, don't asks questions, believing that there is always an Aarons Swartz available. We will loose something very valuable, not even knowing we had it.
It's more power transferred from the citizen to the government, making the citizen less free.
Hey, anybody with something to hide, come on into our free gated beer garden. See the palm tree and stripper pole. It's very casual and free in there. You can get away with anything. Don't mind the microphones on the tables. That's just our new convenient ordering system. Just say what you want, and we will bring it: beer, wine, cocktails, guns, explosives, sex slaves, we got it all, and it's all on the down low here.
I did a search on me and found myself in several places with info that wasn't quite right and one that wasn't me at all.
I thought then that what someone ought to do is provide a service that would put out false trails and false information so that your real info gets lost in the noise even if you haven't lived in several states and a couple of continents.
Oh... I did get freaked out (as in no hyperbole here, genuinely freaked out) when I signed up for Linkedin and it suggested a person that I hadn't seen or heard from in 15 years and for whom I had no possible way of finding and hadn't even tried a search on her name and that I don't even have contacts that even might be one of her contacts in common.
Usually even something surprising can be figured out in hindsight.
Synova: "I thought then that what someone ought to do is provide a service that would put out false trails and false information so that your real info gets lost in the noise even if you haven't lived in several states and a couple of continents."
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American ingenuity to the rescue again.
Good video Dev. Questions need to be asked about internet privacy and anonymity.
If we sit back, don't asks questions, believing that there is always an Aarons Swartz available. We will loose something very valuable, not even knowing we had it.
It's more power transferred from the citizen to the government, making the citizen less free.
That's one way to narrow down the targets.
Hey, anybody with something to hide, come on into our free gated beer garden. See the palm tree and stripper pole. It's very casual and free in there. You can get away with anything. Don't mind the microphones on the tables. That's just our new convenient ordering system. Just say what you want, and we will bring it: beer, wine, cocktails, guns, explosives, sex slaves, we got it all, and it's all on the down low here.
I did a search on me and found myself in several places with info that wasn't quite right and one that wasn't me at all.
I thought then that what someone ought to do is provide a service that would put out false trails and false information so that your real info gets lost in the noise even if you haven't lived in several states and a couple of continents.
Oh... I did get freaked out (as in no hyperbole here, genuinely freaked out) when I signed up for Linkedin and it suggested a person that I hadn't seen or heard from in 15 years and for whom I had no possible way of finding and hadn't even tried a search on her name and that I don't even have contacts that even might be one of her contacts in common.
Usually even something surprising can be figured out in hindsight.
Synova:
"I thought then that what someone ought to do is provide a service that would put out false trails and false information so that your real info gets lost in the noise even if you haven't lived in several states and a couple of continents."
That would be interesting.
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