“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.” -- Pearl S. Buck
Given that monitoring is impossible to prevent or really limit, all efforts should be made in shaming those taking bad ACTIONS based upon collected data.
It is not impossible to prevent or limit.
There are many projects working on software and technologies to do just that. Some are:
Do you realize that if we only had laws forbidding women from traveling alone in public without being escorted by a male relative how many rapes we might prevent each year?
I don't have a reference on hand, and the sad state of my mobile device makes it too time consuming to dig one up, but most studies agree that the vast majority of sexual assault crimes are committed by someone the victim knows, with a non-trivial percent of assailants being male family members.
I realize you were forming an example for a more generalized argument, but in the case of Constitutionally questionable social structures, being accurate is of paramount importance.
There is an enormous range of import for input development.
Computing has evolved and changed with remarkable breadth since i picked up my first VIC-20, which was outdated when i got my hands on it (the days of MS-DOS and the Windows 3.1 transition). Now we carry GPS internet communications devices in our pocket and ask them where we are, when's the bus coming, and what did the stock market do in a country halfway around the world 20 minutes ago.
In terms of this particular innovative direction, home entertainment computers are becoming normal for audio, video, and gaming. A large wall display and this kind of device as an interface is not a surprising or unusual direction for exploring the possible best-use ways to interact and control such a system. That could even include home automation, or anything. Input development and innovation actually have a huge impact on what we see our computers as capable of doing for us and influence how we think about the ways in which we can interact with information and communication.
What version of Windows XP are you using? Any time I've installed XP from a normal disk, it requires at least agreeing to some license agreement, partitioning, formating, configuring your network to some degree, choosing username, clicking "Next" a bunch of times, some other random stupid things I'm preobably not remembering, and then installing several drivers. I'd love a copy of XP that installed as easily as hitting the "install" button.
Look for an "Unattended" copy of XP Pro Corporate...As long as you're plugged into ethernet (as opposed to hoping your laptop wireless card will automagically work from the cd...linux for that), You just have to choose your install partition, walk away, come back later and name the machine and set a password, walk away, then come back later. Of course, the only user is "Administrator" and has the password you set, but you can add a user or change your username if you wish (changing XP usernames and trying to change the name of your...."home"...directory is a process....add another user and disable the Administrator log in, except of course for safe mode.).
If someone dies, it's not terribly relevant to them or their family if it was a "hate crime".
I'm only bringing up hate crimes because that's what you might risk if you get labeled as a pedophile. Hate crimes are when people don't have any interaction or action to hate you for, just what they think about you and your person. Getting killed for being gay, black, or a pedophile when you were nice to everyone is a hate crime, and someone might feel like speaking anonymously to protect themselves and loved ones from other people, not necessarily the system.
...if you can think of a system where there is legitimate need for anonymity, then that system isn't totally free.
I don't know about "system" level, but a society and community (town or global) is more than the systems that make it up. People have been lynched for less. See the Bible Belt and the American South, even in the last ten years. I don't want to write details here, but sometimes people die. And never well.
From http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/incidents.html:
Of the 9,080 reported hate crime offenses in [the U.S. in] 2006:
* 32.1 percent were destruction/damage/vandalism.
* 27.6 percent were intimidation.
* 19.1 percent were simple assault.
* 13.0 percent were aggravated assault.
* The remaining 8.2 percent of hate crimes were comprised of additional crimes against persons, property, and society.
That makes 1180.4 aggravated assaults reported as hate crime. I don't think deaths are common, but who wants their life fucked with? And this is just the U.S.
What a roadblock to all those brialliant, anti-social types who won't ever be able to put the last pieces to together as they spend 23 hours a day in front of their "command centers".
Sounds like security through obscurity, except they forgot to obscure it.
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“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.” -- Pearl S. Buck
Given that monitoring is impossible to prevent or really limit, all efforts should be made in shaming those taking bad ACTIONS based upon collected data.
It is not impossible to prevent or limit.
There are many projects working on software and technologies to do just that. Some are:
What you're saying
RedPhone and TextSecure: https://whispersystems.org/
Wickr: https://www.mywickr.com/en/index.php/
Parley.co: http://parley.co/
Silent Circle: https://silentcircle.com/
Seecrypt: https://www.seecrypt.com/
Who you're saying it to / who or where you are
Tor: https://www.torproject.org/
Both (for the most part)
LEAP: https://leap.se/ (Full disclosure: I am a developer on this project)
to name a few :)
Admission: I am not completely familiar with the details of many of these projects
Do you realize that if we only had laws forbidding women from traveling alone in public without being escorted by a male relative how many rapes we might prevent each year?
I don't have a reference on hand, and the sad state of my mobile device makes it too time consuming to dig one up, but most studies agree that the vast majority of sexual assault crimes are committed by someone the victim knows, with a non-trivial percent of assailants being male family members.
I realize you were forming an example for a more generalized argument, but in the case of Constitutionally questionable social structures, being accurate is of paramount importance.
There is an enormous range of import for input development. Computing has evolved and changed with remarkable breadth since i picked up my first VIC-20, which was outdated when i got my hands on it (the days of MS-DOS and the Windows 3.1 transition). Now we carry GPS internet communications devices in our pocket and ask them where we are, when's the bus coming, and what did the stock market do in a country halfway around the world 20 minutes ago. In terms of this particular innovative direction, home entertainment computers are becoming normal for audio, video, and gaming. A large wall display and this kind of device as an interface is not a surprising or unusual direction for exploring the possible best-use ways to interact and control such a system. That could even include home automation, or anything. Input development and innovation actually have a huge impact on what we see our computers as capable of doing for us and influence how we think about the ways in which we can interact with information and communication.
What version of Windows XP are you using? Any time I've installed XP from a normal disk, it requires at least agreeing to some license agreement, partitioning, formating, configuring your network to some degree, choosing username, clicking "Next" a bunch of times, some other random stupid things I'm preobably not remembering, and then installing several drivers. I'd love a copy of XP that installed as easily as hitting the "install" button.
Look for an "Unattended" copy of XP Pro Corporate...As long as you're plugged into ethernet (as opposed to hoping your laptop wireless card will automagically work from the cd...linux for that), You just have to choose your install partition, walk away, come back later and name the machine and set a password, walk away, then come back later. Of course, the only user is "Administrator" and has the password you set, but you can add a user or change your username if you wish (changing XP usernames and trying to change the name of your...."home"...directory is a process....add another user and disable the Administrator log in, except of course for safe mode.).
If someone dies, it's not terribly relevant to them or their family if it was a "hate crime". I'm only bringing up hate crimes because that's what you might risk if you get labeled as a pedophile. Hate crimes are when people don't have any interaction or action to hate you for, just what they think about you and your person. Getting killed for being gay, black, or a pedophile when you were nice to everyone is a hate crime, and someone might feel like speaking anonymously to protect themselves and loved ones from other people, not necessarily the system.
...if you can think of a system where there is legitimate need for anonymity, then that system isn't totally free.
I don't know about "system" level, but a society and community (town or global) is more than the systems that make it up. People have been lynched for less. See the Bible Belt and the American South, even in the last ten years. I don't want to write details here, but sometimes people die. And never well. From http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/incidents.html:
Of the 9,080 reported hate crime offenses in [the U.S. in] 2006: * 32.1 percent were destruction/damage/vandalism. * 27.6 percent were intimidation. * 19.1 percent were simple assault. * 13.0 percent were aggravated assault. * The remaining 8.2 percent of hate crimes were comprised of additional crimes against persons, property, and society.
That makes 1180.4 aggravated assaults reported as hate crime. I don't think deaths are common, but who wants their life fucked with? And this is just the U.S.
What a roadblock to all those brialliant, anti-social types who won't ever be able to put the last pieces to together as they spend 23 hours a day in front of their "command centers". Sounds like security through obscurity, except they forgot to obscure it.