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How Tech Vendors Help Governments Spy On Their Citizens
jfruhlinger writes "Most Slashdotters — even those living in democratic countries — would probably be unsurprised to know that their governments are spying on them. But most people are not aware of how complicit security vendors, who publicly work to protect the public from such electronic eavesdropping, are complicit in such monitoring. All this and more is revealed in the latest Wikieaks document dump, the Spy Files."
Most people I know (all over the political spectrum) don't say they haven't done anything useful. Most think they could have done their job better and the organization could be more successful if it was more about transparency and whistleblowing and less about Assange and satisfying his ego.
How does it feel to be a liar with pants constantly on fire?
It has certainly demonstrated the apathy of the public after such leaks...
"I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
It's those who would shut it down that made it about Assange. His name was basically unknown compared to WikiLeaks until the bogus sexual harassment character assassination thing hit.
Check your premises.
Proof. It's what differentiates between bonafide conspiracy and tin foil.
Check your premises.
The fact that you consider that a necessary evil, that should be happening everywhere just because surely happens in US, is already a bad thing.
Unlike the government, we don't have the ability to force ISPs and such to cooperate with us by coercion. "Give us your logs or you're going to prison" carries a lot more weight than "Give us your logs or I'll complain about you on Slashdot".
Oh! Oh! People doing things without permission!
What the hell do you think that "regulation" of the security industry is going to do except guarantee that the only companies allowed into it are ones that are willing to cooperate with the intelligence agencies of the goverments doing the regulating?
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Just dont do anything to make them wanna fire/investigate you and you will be fine.
Isn't this another way of saying, "do whatever your government tells you to, without objection"?
I'm not sure that attitude is compatible with democracy. Sometimes the boat needs to be rocked.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
I think it takes a certain amount of confidence in one's own point of view to go blowing whistles.
To do what Assange has done takes quite a bit more of it.
Ego is not the primary problem, even if the people who think they have something to hide want to distract us by pointing at the ego.
Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens with fancy erasers; the 'net is just a fancy backyard fence.