> Freedom of comsec, say, as a new entry in the US Bill of Rights > could lead the way for it to be a fundamental element of Human > Rights. The Right to Privacy by Warren and Brandeis (1890) FTW!
> NSA's ubiquitous spying on everybody at home and elsewhere > with technology beyond accountability does raise the chances of > getting agreement of all targets -- gov, com, edu, org -- to say > enough is enough, national security has become a catchall for > inexcusable invasion of the public realm. Privacy is a human right in some parts of the world. See, for example, European Convention on Human Rights, Article 8. I wonder if anyone will be prosecuted for their human rights violations... I say hunt them all down like Nazi war criminals. Once a few politicans and top adminstartion officials are exectued, the rest will fall into place (one thing we *can* count on is a politician is out for himself/herself). Jeff On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:59 AM, John Young <j...@pipeline.com> wrote: > Snowden may have raised the prospect of comsec as a public utility > like power, water, gas, sewage, air quality, environmental protection > and telecommunications. Privacy protection has been shown to be > illusory at best, deceptive at worst, due to the uncontrollable > technology applied erroneously for national security. > > Each of the other public utilities began as private offerings before > becoming commercialized and then institutionalized as necessities, > many eventually near or wholly monopolies. > > Each also evolved into military targets for control, contamination, > destruction, and in some cases excluded as too essential for > civilian livelihood to target. > > Comsec as a right for human discourse rather than a commercial > service could enforce privacy beyond easy violation for official > and commercial purposes. > > Freedom of comsec, say, as a new entry in the US Bill of Rights > could lead the way for it to be a fundamental element of Human > Rights. > > The problem will be as ever the commercial and governmental > exploiters aiming to protect their interests against that of > the public. > > FCC and NIST, indeed, the three branches, are hardly reliable to > pursue this, so beholden to the spy agencies they cannot be trusted. > > NSA's ubiquitous spying on everybody at home and elsewhere > with technology beyond accountability does raise the chances of > getting agreement of all targets -- gov, com, edu, org -- to say > enough is enough, national security has become a catchall for > inexcusable invasion of the public realm. > _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
