The current trend for
privacy-enhancing technologiesfor surveillance in web browsers are going to be remembered as a technical dead end, an artifact of an unsustainable advertising oligopoly.
Don Martin has 10 succinct points on why users (aka we) don’t actually want so-called Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) … some technical, some social, some economic.
Die Geschichten um diesen Edja Snodow sind wie das Spiegelbild einer Welt, die man nicht haben will.
https://twitter.com/riyadpr/status/543043457766653952
An awesome talk with Bruce Schneier and Julian Sanchez. Asking just the right questions and giving and eyeopening view into what is possible even with todays technology.
https://youtu.be/JbQeABIoO6A
You have your own invasive surveillance program? The EFF has created an online tool for generating justification statements using real quotes that are so broad and nonsensical that they can be used to justify just about anything. 😀
Summarizing the NSA surveillance program:
Why is this secret?
We had a hunch, you wouldn’t like it.
What did it accomplish?
Nothing yet, we are still waiting for the big coup, that will silence all critics.
How much does it cost?
We don’t know exactly, you know, secret budgets and stuff. Probably somewhere in the billions.
This is basically the confirmation of the things I wrote over a year ago (German).
