-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room! What is going on here? I demand an explanation." -- President Muffley, in Dr. Strangelove
Interestingly, the conversation we're having on the GNU consensus and the SocialSwarm mailing lists illustrate a critical point of our struggle for privacy on the Internet: that the technology is secondary to politics. When politics does the right thing, then technology can apply; when politics goes wrong, whatever the technology, politics will try and mussel it. The workshop at 30C3 is--in my remote understanding--mostly about raising a common technical front for most-private-possible implementations, to short-circuit politics gone wrong. There is an emergency on that front, as politics is way off the mark regarding how user's privacy is constantly violated in electronic communications. So we need not only to re-establish political control, but also provide technically sound counterparts to the will-to-watch-and-listen that all the politicians without exception have been showing. I wish there was a bit more discernment in the reactions of all parties involved regarding the objectives of our efforts. This lack of dialogue is counter-productive and no, I'm not interested in whose fault is it. We're not kids. Just pull yourselves together and stop whining. What is it you want to achieve? == hk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJSjOB7AAoJEEgGw2P8GJg9bNEQAJYxUOpsNuf0YWMZgFhB1547 6yzHk0R1FVJ3+drfJ5mvSx8v541wv5NwVbEONOfpkXHV/x5QT40llyIIH1wMTQs2 moKszCVbRQaHP/EprdEHhUWHapxLrbK+EouL/k9wArf6vkrdUXe0P/k0C7GSLQNH yaikQuxRvkuERVHmisPWUoXC3nhAWX/iyNwbq1an20SmYjyljbl6tX0bv9yYTW4f CQVIi5UvcJTy62r/4G4AEQyLweKBCHoyf+f4IPtvdkuDVFHznC8k2zyINcavU5TK 1/mAWCoIhZyQrrYO1UqMboWOGrFGUmmYdISE9SOmxr8uAYn18GgRBjnpDBSWMtK3 qcp99MDCWfB0CjaJZ/oRYkTVtk3z9tRZQzTZAOedYxWFo7f1XiJgQit4hbLtmkke aKsbPqFZrO3ps76tBJlS9EPc+8esoQ4gp6wNYhXAICEb0COD27UpolXa1rugIhUo +FY9shbNEYqlPR6nV+2kXbkhT0mIgChzKXs4kBD5qK+9CXcSlWCVftmyk1RyesKv Dm21O52JxQ0T6jeLmh486AVyOLa88vhjZHu5rfrWRVao8hEYR9yLfgIxRe+BVWqv XMYCeiO4V67Xzh8U4ippyW3vr2DmL6ck5o3bYVaVSnDE75muJw0ICeLskx70//U6 30xOgHX+9OfchMM9/fpd =Gfnw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
