More grist for this mill: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-17/apple-joins-facebook-microsoft-in-outlining-data-requests.html
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:48 AM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 17:09 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > However, I think many people do have impossible and unrealistic security > > expectations, and if you ask a lot of them (including me) on 9/12/2001 > what > > would be appropriate, systematic cloud server intercepts and data mining > > wouldn't have even made a ripple in the water for me. So there's a > > alternative line of argumentation too that just isn't from today's batch > of > > news. > > And it's not _merely_ the "we live in a post-911" world rhetoric, > either. There's a deeper argument that we really _do_ want the NSA to > stay ahead of the best state-funded and independent hackers all over the > universe. Even those of us who claim to dislike being spied upon by our > own government tend to ooh and aah when they see hints of the fantastic > technologies developed by agencies like the NSA. Anyone who likes James > Bond, Mission Impossible, GI Joe, CSI, Person of Interest, etc. should > admit that up front. > > The fact that the NSA is building entire data centers devoted to > exploring more occult network patterns is fscking fantastic. And, to an > extent, they'd be stupid to "show their hand" every time they came up > with a new algorithm that worked ... and we vassals would be stupid to > _want_ them to do so. > > But the real mistake is the loss of the mystique. Secret work used to, > and still should, carry that "I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill > you" romanticism. In our new age of "lie like you mean it", with no > hint-hint nudge-nudge know-what-I-mean know-what-I-mean, we've lost the > deep, rich, language that allows us to know they're spying on us without > knowing all the details. > > I'm a big fan of open-* (open source, open data, open access, etc). But > there is a forcing toward banality that comes with it ... a dumbing down > to a least common denominator. We've become so literal, it's kinda sad. > We can't all be the "cool kids". Some of us have to be left out, > bullied and victimized by them. Some of us have to be the pretenders > who claim to know things they don't actually know. Etc. And some of us > have to bear the burden of being the dork trapped in the cool kid clique > (as Snowden wants us to believe he was). Without such a class > hierarchy, our language becomes robotic and lifeless. > > > -- > =><= glen e. p. ropella > I have come undone > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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