Greenwald's keynote at 30c3: priorities for privacy activists

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by jobeirne • 13 years ago

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moloch• 13 years ago

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJIR0-KJu0

salient• 13 years ago

Michael Hayden, former chief of NSA, recently said that the young people should give up on their "romanticized" idea of transparency (for the government). That's some irony for you, considering his NSA is the one that started going after "total information awareness", by collecting everything on everyone, and trying to kill privacy and anonymity worldwide.

Why isn't his idea "romanticized", too? Also, if anything, it's the governments that should have total transparency, not the citizens. They are the public people working on the interest of the public, and the public should be able to verify that what they're doing is in its interest. Instead, we see the opposite. They're trying to make every person an open book to them, while they're increasingly denying FOIA requests, to the point where even the police does it (NYPD especially).

That's not how it's supposed to work. Maybe Hayden and the others that think like him, should give up on the idea of "romanticized" tyranny, that they want to establish.

rmc• 13 years ago

If you hack corporations you can very defintly "get a gun pointed at you". There are laws against hacking, even hacking corporations, and you can be convicted. You can also be sued.

falcolas• 13 years ago

Agreed. Swartz wasn't convicted of hacking the government. He was accused of hacking a private corporation. The fact that it was the government prosecuting it like they did shows how little difference there is between the targets.

Greenwald's keynote at 30c3: priorities for privacy activists

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