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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 16/11/15 11:05, Simon Avery wrote: > On 16 November 2015 at 10:12, jah <jah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:jah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > As autonomous beings we should be able to choose what information, > about ourselves and our family, we share with others. > > > In theory, yes. > > In practice, no - unless you live in a cave, entirely off the grid > and don't do any business. That governments require information > about their citizens is not anything new. What is new is the scale > and ease the modern age provides them. You can of course limit that > through choice, but you cannot eliminate it. And even doing so may > mark you as a person of interest that requires other measures to > monitor. > > Tinhat views are interesting, and it's a rabbit hole you can go as > deep as you choose. Most people want convenience and are prepared > to sacrifice information and security to achieve it. The internet > has many many alluring ways to persuade you to share that > information, far more than at any time. > > What is outright dangerous is the seeming requirement to reduce > personal security for everyone to monitor the few. This is great > news for criminals with such amazing data stores potentially > available at every ISP. > > One wonders if the snooper's charter will require https/ssl > security to allow gchq to access these files, or submit them, or > whatever? > > > Of course if this policy of backdoors / limiting encryption makes it easier for criminals to steal money / data from you, they could then use that data to help / fund terrorism, so the governments very strategy for monitoring terror ends up funding it in other way so it ends up counter productive. Paul > > - -- http://www.zleap.net t: @zleap14 diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Documentation lead @ ToriOS http://www.torios.org Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk Festival of Code 2016 1st - 5th August 2016 http://www.yrs.io -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlZJvUgACgkQaggq1k2FJq3QIQCeLIYQWgCkxoeK43xl9V7E8vU6 8tcAni1ChdGfnUViTRTTh+o11zxKmp4+ =85hD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq