-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 04/05/2013 01:20 PM, Nicholas Merrill wrote: > > In my humble opinion, Google deserves to be commended for taking > this action which it did not have to take ! > *** Isn't the FBI is getting for free what they usually sell? Isn't that a good enough incentive? Sure they're doing the right thing, this time.
But I smell a trend in the last few weeks of enthusiastic announcements for progress of this, and leaks of that. But there are *details* that really look suspicious to me: - - Google wants your information, it's their plan, and their business. That they don't want to share it with the FBI is probably a good thing, but it doesn't change their plan. - - The recent OffshoreLeaks sound great, and are important, but I'm (not) very surprised there's nobody really important there, just some adequate puppets, so far. The real beneficiaries of offshore banking are still hiding. Is that because the British Virgin Islands were deemed expandable, or because we don't have the whole picture yet? - - The shortlist of "State Enemies of the Internet" given by the Reporters Without Borders is the most suspicious of all: Bahrain, China, Iran, Syria, Vietnam. To everybody else, the actual enemies would be the ones sitting on the UN Security Council, and another for good measure: USA (ACTA? CISPA? NSL? NSA Bunker? StuxNet? Aaron Swartz?), Israel (Stuxnet?), Russia, UK, France (Amesys, wow!), the entire EU, Myanmar/Burma (hey, need to remember those racist buddhists oppressing poor Muslims sometimes, unless it's politically incorrect to do so?), etc. but no: instead they're pointing at the designated enemies of "U.S. interests". (http://surveillance.rsf.org/en/) It's become so difficult not to lose one's mind over paranoia, nor to abandon all hope of seeing the light. The media landscape looks more and more like a polarized lens to demonize "the enemy" (hint: you're part of it) and sneak war propaganda everywhere. If I were in London, I would bet on the declaration of war on Iran before Spring 2014. == hk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJRXyM6AAoJEDhjYTkcokoT+VUP/ROdEONjtNpEP9K8eojDDAL/ A9VziO1xnGb2ZZih1dTuV4Ru11k0HCuWECclv84QWhKydbHKk6cI8olu6vfEwjz3 +hrqcc1WMDz7rzF3GR8Qc5KbO7vH5t31LvmNdYNVmHGgpV3zlHzEzdRQNJs+Cu87 WhPzu8AdzumF4wRnr4JjeAGNGQgwE8J+rBtpJgVCwao/3lfJW/Z1jfqLKw09GIhy 9/N3H/fsSLyJO8yxDbb9UquYju1XRfJxZiw0XM7qOD+gorswPWEVC1zqeiGxEGOq G9XciUUb7dtZY4cB9xB9nUkunidXB7Xr0YkEQxh02R6FTMA+8hMpbJHt9paIfby1 jyppunfLsqK9YyZwweNb2IjWpvkhhYVFwoLcwomnBkDtgRJLZ3O/CtomahD0p09/ ENiIfnYOdu97RRHW+8npVAwVpuxUlC/byP8sFaTCm3pvrLV5u8Swvbsw2YShV0wV f8tz7ZIGMED7yCQvP8gSjR2zlGM/fsZNbQw019arRSuR0GPdq5TJP9pOdWfGk7zA q3XII6Dtj+AorxZBxgVbILQB2Gqox6IFuMwMHiFXdYXOWDLWp4XZ8ZhXJTEySvrT pDwCgGbh+Qinbv3ufUVWz+pd+BI4gpBKNU/kNicB2YJgukfRLhrwBrf3esiWW9Re KS5EjKVvp4qBbSbeMWS1 =60aZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
