On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:15 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/18/2013 2:27 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > Also, it's a funny moment in History to pretend that giving this much > power to governments does not have consequences. What if the economy > is saved but we end up living under a modern global Stasi? This > sounded like "conspiracy theory" stuff a few weeks ago, but what about > now? > > My hope is that bitcoin or something like that will finally set us > free from the criminals that have been running the financial systems. > I still believe in technology more than I believe in politics. > > > But it's technology that's enabling the global Stasi. If someone had to > actually listen to your phonecalls and take notes our privacy would be > secure.
True :( My reasoning is this: I believe that it is possible to create a network that cannot be compromised, by a combination of strong encryption, pear to pear topology and decentralised everything. This things already exist. The reason they aren't popular is that they are too inconvenient to use. The more intrusive governments become, the higher the incentive to both improve these technologies and put up with inconveniences. So I have this hope that things like PRISM will be the catalyst of their own demise. Even the hardware medium can become decentralised with the advent of very small computers that can be deployed everywhere, including balloons and other crazy ideas. Communication through quantum entanglement would set us free for good, unless I'm missing something. Telmo. > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
