Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crypto is a tool, not a solution.
"How are we going to push this nail into this board?" "We can use a hammer." "A hammer is a tool, not a solution."
It'd be great if it were that simple, but it isn't.
I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crypto is a tool, not a solution.
"How are we going to push this nail into this board?" "We can use a hammer." "A hammer is a tool, not a solution."
The foundations of our building are crumbling, causing all the wood beams to fall out of place.
Do you use a hammer to right them all?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crypto is a tool, not a solution.
"How are we going to push this nail into this board?" "We can use a hammer." "A hammer is a tool, not a solution."
The question is "How can we build a house on a solid foundation that helps us live free, happy, healthy lives."
Hammers may be a part of the toolset, but they won't solve issues like siting it on the edge of a sand dune, or that the septic tank is currently in the master bedroom.
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#24How the hell is James Clapper still in office?? Isn't what he did so obviously perjury?
The America of 2013 is absolute bullshit. I can't even fathom how corrupt this country is.
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#25How the hell is James Clapper still in office?? Isn't what he did so obviously perjury? The America of 2013 is absolute bullshit. I can't even fathom how corrupt this country is.
>How the hell is James Clapper still in office?? Isn't what he did so obviously perjury?
Yes, what he did clearly meets the statutory definition of perjury. He's still employed by the government because our officials, elected and appointed, are almost completely unaccountable to the public due to the political process being broken down by a corporate-controlled media and corporatocratic (see: Mussolini) system of government. The law is no longer equally applied - wealthy, important, and powerful people are "too big to fail", while even the most urgent concerns of average proles is generally beneath notice of those in charge. The only exception to this is when the proles' concerns become so widespread that a movement forms and majority demand for democratic change might result. In these cases a number of pacification strategies are adopted, like co-opting the proletariat movement with well-spoken placebo change agents who offer strong messages of hope, and have absolutely no intention of following through with them, or discrediting the movement by airing the dirty laundry of those movement leaders who cannot be corrupted or co-opted.
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#26Reading this (and others) makes me conclude that we the people (or any country, but especially here in the US) are truly and royally fucked. For every brave person who stands up there are a hundred thousand who refuse to the see the sun rises in the east and continues to believe what they are being told, that it rises in the west.
Technology will be the solution, not politics. Cryptography is the only way out of this hell.
Were it that simple we wouldn't have the problem in the first place.
They then just subvert those implementing the crypto like Hushmail, Skype, or iMessage.
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#27I wanted to thank the poster for their work in transcribing this! I personally really appreciate it.
I REALLY dig doing this via github as well. I submitted a pull request with some spelling changes.
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#28'Applause' at the end is an understatement. He got a long standing ovation for his contributions to expose the NSA's war on people.
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#29watching the video, at some points there seems to be audio lag...
I even wonder if the NSA actually tried to DDOS the skype call conference.
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#30Reading this (and others) makes me conclude that we the people (or any country, but especially here in the US) are truly and royally fucked. For every brave person who stands up there are a hundred thousand who refuse to the see the sun rises in the east and continues to believe what they are being told, that it rises in the west.
We are only if people give up. Progress is a long road, at times. Not to directly compare the two, but look at the history of the civil rights movement in the US, from slavery, to Lincoln, to the 60ies and to the present day. That has been a fight carried out over generations, but things have gotten better.
It's interesting that privacy enabled many previous, successful movements like civil rights.