"Dismantling the surveillance state won't be easy. Has any country that engaged in mass surveillance of its own citizens voluntarily given up that capability? Has any mass surveillance country avoided becoming totalitarian? "
Wow! Good old Guardian, the standard bearer of rational and unbiased journalism…
Wasn't the internet originally built by the military (ARPANet)? If so, it was awfully nice of them to let us use it. ;)
Peder
On 2013-09-05, at 5:03 PM, Glen Newton <
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> "The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers
> built the internet – and now we have to fix it"
>
>
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying>
> "If you do not have a security clearance, and if you have not received
> a National Security Letter, you are not bound by a federal
> confidentially requirements or a gag order. If you have been contacted
> by the NSA to subvert a product or protocol, you need to come forward
> with your story. Your employer obligations don't cover illegal or
> unethical activity. If you work with classified data and are truly
> brave, expose what you know. We need whistleblowers."
>
> Wow.
>
> -Glen
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