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It's like a reverse get out of jail free card. Do the other party have evidence against you? Declare classified documents and they go to jail instead of you.
But if you pile the classified documents up in their bathroom, they’ll be fine.
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Most people have no safety net and if the money stops rolling in their life is effectively ruined for several years
Most people in the world? Potentially, though I doubt the "life ruined for years" part holds for >50%. Most people on HN? Definite no. Most people on HN who work in roles where they're exposed to such mass surveillance or other evil at scale (like Meta)? Absolutely not.
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- There are people with $1M+ salaries who live pay check to pay check. This is a choice. A lot of HNers fall under this category. - A lot of people who are actually poor and live pay check to pay check aren't ruined for years if they lose their job. Because the nature of their work and lack of career usually means they're unstable and replaceable "commodity" jobs in the first place. - Almost everyone who is in a posi…
Top 5% earnings only buffer you against job loss if you don't have top 5% expenditures. The hedonic treadmill is real.
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Most people in the world? Potentially, though I doubt the "life ruined for years" part holds for >50%. Most people on HN? Definite no. Most people on HN who work in roles where they're exposed to such mass surveillance or other evil at scale (like Meta)? Absolutely not.
I've seen [alleged] homeless people post on here before. Do you really need more than an interest in tech (and an internet connection) to read/post here?
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that is a good way of looking at it. I wonder though, if power is a bad thing in and of itself. I know that there will always be power. I would rather have people with good intentions have it then the opposite. Not sure how that will happen. I think when more good people get involved I guess.
Nope. Power corrupts. Or as Frank Herbert said it, power attracts the corruptible. The solution is to not give anyone that much power over you!
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Nope. Power corrupts. Or as Frank Herbert said it, power attracts the corruptible. The solution is to not give anyone that much power over you!
There is no better way to neutralize an issue like spying on Americas politically than to have both political parties gaslight the public and assert that it isn't happening. In politics as a team sport, you can't admit that your team would lie like that other team does.
The people that treat surveillance as a political flashpoint don't take it seriously enough to inspire change.
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Nope. Power corrupts. Or as Frank Herbert said it, power attracts the corruptible. The solution is to not give anyone that much power over you!
There is no better way to neutralize an issue like spying on Americas politically than to have both political parties gaslight the public and assert that it isn't happening. In politics as a team sport, you can't admit that your team would lie like that other team does.
I use to think power was the problem, but then I watched a video from someone I respected[0] and it changed my mind. Plus reading Hannah Arendt[1].
Instances like this is a powerful statement that truly free and democratic governance is not sustainable in the long run with technological advancements. We are basically trading marginal comforts from new technology in the short run for political freedom in the long run and the latency is decreasing. The difference is overt governance of this nature is vilified and amplified in the media and the covert governance is…
They're sustainable but require major cultural revolution to keep up.
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There is no better way to neutralize an issue like spying on Americas politically than to have both political parties gaslight the public and assert that it isn't happening. In politics as a team sport, you can't admit that your team would lie like that other team does.
Power is different than politics however. Maybe someday/some way we can build different organizations of people that can make good use of power. I use to think power was the problem, but then I watched a video from someone I respected[0] and it changed my mind. Plus reading Hannah Arendt[1]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJjODY-PyJY [1]: https://hac.bard.edu/
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Hackers 2: operation takedown is based on a true story. https://www.cybereason.com/blog/malicious-life-podcast-kevin... > his brother introduced him to a hacker named Eric Heinz, who told him about a mysterious piece of equipment he came across while breaking into Pacific Bell: SAS, a testing system that allowed its user to listen in on all the calls going through the telephone network. SAS proved to be too great of…
Even an office PBX has listen, whisper and barge. Why wouldn't a telco-grade switch have it?
But allowing law enforcement to access that system without a warrant is a clear 4th amendment violation.