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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by bawolff »

selcuka wrote: post #30
bawolff wrote: post #4

> The prefece to the story is, that I in a kind of roundabout and (I think) humorous way published "my two favorite numbers" by spelling out a 10 diget and a 8 diget number with letters. I didn't tell what they ment, but they where prime minister Mette Frederiksen's social security and phone number Umm, so was he arrested for doxing the prime minister? Is there more to the story than that? As someone who cares about…

> Obviously i want that to apply to everyone not just the rich and famous Do you really want armed and masked police to break down the doors of people who dox others, disable their cameras, and arrest them while refusing to tell them the charges? Because without these details this would have been a non-story.

Most of the time i would want the arrests to proceed in a more civil manner unless the situation warranted otherwise, but ultimately yes, i think doxing/harrasment is a crime and people who commit it should be arrested and tried.

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Post by dataflow »

bondarchuk wrote: post #199
dataflow wrote: post #170

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I still don't understand what that has to do with encryption. Are these two separate policy proposals, one for GPS tracking and one for encryption, that this person is supporting?

Think about why do governments want to ban encryption? Because they want to know everything about you all the time. Collecting information on someone such as their location is of the same order.

> Think about why do governments want to ban encryption? Because they want to know everything about you all the time.

Or, say, because they want a judicial warrant to be sufficient for obtaining someone's information without their consent?

> Collecting information on someone such as their location is of the same order.

Huh? This sounds crazy.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by GJim »

walletdrainer wrote: post #182
erentz wrote: post #181

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How can we know the IRA “won”? The country changed a hell of a lot over the course of the Troubles and by the time of the GFA in 1998 I don’t see how it is so clear that the reforms wouldn’t have also been achieved via other peaceful and democratic means.

> How can we know the IRA “won”? In signing the GFA, the UK effectively gave up on it's sovereignty over NI. That was never going to happen through "peaceful and democratic means"

Good god!

It's difficult to make out if this is ignorance, a poor attempt at satire or simply trolling.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by bawolff »

monegator wrote: post #118
Quothling wrote: post #22

I'm Danish and lars kragh andersen is a bit of a grey zone. He obviously goes over the line, he tried to put GPS trackers on the cars of ministers. He "stalks" their families, and dox their children online. He gave an interview on how he'd ignore people carrying a kilo gram of weed when he was a cop because he doesn't agree with the "war on drugs". On the flip-side, he's sort of right. I assume that putting a GPS tra…

> He goes way too far though that's what activist have to do to shake people

> that's what activist have to do to shake people

That's also the line most terrorist groups use.

Its not exactly wrong i suppose. 9/11 did get Americans to think about the middle east a lot more.

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Post by dzhiurgis »

Intermernet wrote: post #131
dzhiurgis wrote: post #89

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Benn Jordan did a video recently where he showed Flock cameras, which were hackable, pointing at children's playgrounds. Who is stalking the children?

Cool. Britain has been doing this for a while.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by bondarchuk »

gpvos wrote: post #206
bondarchuk wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think about why do governments want to ban encryption? Because they want to know everything about you all the time. Collecting information on someone such as their location is of the same order.

It may be of the same order, but it is a different thing. No one, not even techies like here on HN, are going to see his actions as valid.

He has to use a different method because obviously he does not have a backdoor into the prime minister's phone. The fact that "obviously wrong" invasive methods have to be used (now) to imitate something that the prime minister want to apply to every citizen (except himself and his buddies) in the future can be seen as part of the point.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by microsoftedging »

gaiagraphia wrote: post #187
tao_oat wrote: post #183

Because no one has mentioned it here: Lars Andersen is also a right-wing extremist who regularly posts racist content on social media. His privacy/free speech activism seems to be (at least partly) motivated by this. I think this is useful context for evaluating his judgment.

An example would've been nice. All too often people throw around the racist buzzword without ever actually providing evidence. It's as if we're expected to just blindly trust and follow that somebody is now excommunicated from modern society.

https://x.com/LarsAnders1620/status/1885254465160118655, first one that comes up when I view X (not signed in). I don't think this is enough (as OP declared) to authoritatively place him in 'right wing extremist' but probably racist. I don't speak danish, but someone that could would be able to make a more complete judgement because most, if not all posts of his, are in Danish.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by actionfromafar »

ACCount37 wrote: post #142
l23k4 wrote: post #139

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2 out of 3 for "bombed to shit". I wouldn't call that "working". I'm not sure if Iran's regime has the staying power, but Hamas sure doesn't seem to be in a good shape lately.

Even if every single Hamas was killed - you have a whole population totally traumatized. That's extremely fertile ground for something like Hamas to pop up again. So, a lot of sufferring but Bibi and "Hamas" (or whatever) prospers.

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Post by warumdarum »

Lerc wrote: post #151
Quothling wrote: post #22

I'm Danish and lars kragh andersen is a bit of a grey zone. He obviously goes over the line, he tried to put GPS trackers on the cars of ministers. He "stalks" their families, and dox their children online. He gave an interview on how he'd ignore people carrying a kilo gram of weed when he was a cop because he doesn't agree with the "war on drugs". On the flip-side, he's sort of right. I assume that putting a GPS tra…

>He goes way too far though. Especially if he actually wants change, the way he "protests" is directly damaging his own cause, since nobody is going to sympathise with harrassing children. I don't think this is a given. Just Stop Oil says that their tactics do make people hate them, but their research tells them that it still makes peoples opinions on the issues move in the direction that they want them to. Their pos…

Its a know tatic to sponsor the extreme fringe to discredit a cause. Just stop oil receiving oil money?
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