Almost a year ago, Jun 25, 2012, I wrote: > One risk of the current net is that social > networks, email providers, etc. can be > used to track people, in particular to > track them down when a government is > irritated with them. Consider Yahoo > turning in Shi Tao or the US gov't > demanding Twitter records for people > involved with WikLeaks. > > Those are Morizov's second point; the > net as a tool for oppression. As I see it, > preventing that sort of thing is the most > important goal of the Box project and the > question of how exactly to manage that > is critical.
I think the Snowden revelations have made this topical again. The original thread has much other good stuff on this and related topics. I urge people to reread that discussion. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
