kelsey hudson wrote:
By your argument, there's no point in passwords. After all, if you
want privacy, you can't get on the internet, plain and simple.
Apples to oranges.
I don't agree. And this is where we're going to conflict.
Keeping someone from masquerading as me or gaining
access to something to which they should not have access != keeping
someone from gleaning personal details about me or reading my IM
conversations or whatever.
The two *are* the same. It's just a matter of degree.
Which communications should the government have access to? Why not all
of them? You have nothing to hide, and they only have your best
interests at heart. <sarcasm>
In addition, you might have something to hide and not know it, yet.
What happens when they find that taking anti-depressants is correlated
with being a <gasp> Democrat? 8 years of these nitwits could depress
anybody ... and they already have the list.
No. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get
you. ;)
I'm not paranoid. I'm actually quite the opposite: I'll put it out there
for everyone to see. I have nothing to hide.
Honesty does not necessarily offer protection. We just had this discussion:
"Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y
trouverai de quoi le faire pendre." -
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
Translation: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the
most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."
If the government really wants to monitor me, they will use wiretaps,
keyloggers, remote laser eavesdropping, etc.
You assume that you're important enough for them to warrant getting out
the high-tech gizmos to do it.
No. I just want to make sure that they *need* to pull out the high-tech
gizmos to come after me. I simply want to make sure they regard me as a
sufficiently expensive target that it isn't worth the effort unless they
pretty much know I'm doing something wrong.
In addition, by making the effort required to monitor innocent people
closer to the effort required to monitor actual criminals, the
government gets forced to allocate its resources toward what it should
be doing (investigating criminals) rather than what is easy (monitoring
the populace).
-a
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