Hi > "Can a gay kid in Uganda use this safely?"
(though Uganda can be substituted by many other place names.) I can think of few better touchstones. I have been working with some people in Uganda and elswhere and I think you hit the nail on the head. There is a real problem with any privacy measure that singles out someone as using it in a country where they can bust down your door just because you made them curious. avri On 19 Oct 2013, at 21:21, Ted Hardie wrote: > Like most folks involved in this list, I have a personal response to the > current situation and some thoughts on how it will impact my or our work in > the future. Since I expect we will pretty short of mic time in Vancouver for > thoughts like these, I decided to write them out. > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hardie-perpass-touchstone-00 > > is the result. It's quite short but a quick summary is this: > > Pervasive monitoring induces self-censoring which harms the Internet and its > users. At the scale of the modern Internet, that means it harms humanity. > > We can and should change our approach to Internet engineering and system > design to deal with this. There will be costs for that, but we should pay > them. > > It helps me, personally, to focus on a single user when asking whether a > system or protocol is appropriate in the current environment. The draft lays > out why. > > regards, > > Ted Hardie > _______________________________________________ > perpass mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
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