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On 4/4/12, Nicholas Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > So. In short. Has everybody BUT me gone to some toggle in Google and in > Firefox and in I.E. and done something like “turn off tracking”. Is the > peril anything worse that when I am trying to show you the “Great New Ap” on > my lAPtop, google keeps putting up ads for a lotion that will grow hair on a > billiard ball? Nick > > > > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf > Of James Steiner > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 8:06 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] online privacy (again) > > > > Option 1, use the network more (throw out chaff), won't work, unless you are > very sophisticated about the chaff you produce. Normal unecrypted > communications are easy to filter and sort. > > The real answer is For everyone to use *encrypted* communications more. Aka > SSL/VPN everywhere. > > The more we use encrypted communications for everyday things, there is no > new pattern to detect when we use it for...other...things. > > As for the outputs like twitter, discus(forum comment system), Reddit, etc, > it is key that anonymous or pseudonymous speech remain available. > > ~~James > > On Apr 3, 2012 7:32 PM, "glen" <g...@ropella.name> wrote: > > ERIC P. CHARLES wrote at 04/02/2012 12:08 PM: >> What is there to resist? What would such resistance accomplish? >> Your options are to not care and go about your business as before, to >> learn to >> talk in some sophisticated code, or to stop using the square. What else is >> there? > > There are at least 2 other resistance routes ... possibly more. > > 1) Use tools like the internet _more_ ... as much as you can, and > 2) Press for _laws_ that prevent asymmetries and the enforcement of > those laws on asymmetric agents (like Presidents who commit crimes but > bet -- and usually win -- that they'll never be prosecuted). > > (1) contributes to "security through obscurity". The more normal people > use the media for normal activities, the more difficult it will be to > de-anonymize (make personal) any subset of transactions. And while > security through obscurity is terrible when used in isolation, it can > help. [*] > > (2) The prevalence for openness we see in our youth is _not_ identical > to apathy about who's snooping. The openness is, I think, a lack of > wisdom about how asymmetric relationships can become. The problems > don't lie in people _knowing_ that I have cats and what they look like. > The problem lies in nefarious or all-powerful agents knowing that I > have cats and what they look like. Any federal agency (by the very > definition of "federal") sets up an asymmetric relation from the start. > And _that's_ bad. Asymmetry always leads to abuse, unless it is well > regulated. > > So, definitely don't just get used to it. Push for research into where > anonymity fosters or hinders human rights. Push for open government. > Guilt trip your friends into setting up and using GPG, Tor, BitTorrent, > Etc. Use the internet for buying groceries and talking to grandma as > well as downloading music and looking up bomb recipes. Etc. Do anything > _but_ give up and get used to whatever bad situation you're in. > > [*] Using the commons for things other than specific "suspicious" > activity is what the Occupy movement is all about. If we only encrypt > our _important_ e-mails, then the NSA knows _exactly_ which e-mails to > attack. It's so obvious I'm totally confused why more people don't > support Occupy. We should not only protest in the commons ... we should > also play chess there ... drink beer there ... play football there ... etc. > > -- > glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
