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It’s funny you think there’s a difference
It's funny you think there isn't a difference between the humanity of your parents and some faceless governamental bureaucracy.
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My parents giving me a name is one thing. The state giving me a number and arresting me if I fail to produce that number to police on demand is another.
Which one of those is problematic to you? The state giving you a number or arresting you if you refuse to identify yourself? Because you've given yourself a nice straw man to fight by conflating them.
Not least: they’re ignoring that simply having an identity is a traceable & trackable thing… because that would derail their paranoid fantasies where they’re a hero, fighting against a dystopian world.
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> We just don’t the government enough to let them track us everywhere. That statement is both true and emblematic of the problem. Everyone is so cynical that a clean public-key, offline, certificate-based solution, with an absolute zero visibility to the government of who is doing what, would always be assumed to be part of some nefarious Illuminati/Democrat/Republican plot. Proving it to people with technical tests…
Because there has never been a proposal for a "clean public-key / offline / certificate-based solution". It's always a central database that also does x and y and will be available for w and z departments to do as they will with it.
> Also, it would be better to protect against this by securing the logs or using hard drive encryption. This one line is emblematic of the flaws in the article. My take on the article is, “Imagine that everything else in a system is done correctly, and the system, overall, is perfectly secure. In this imaginary world, short sessions don’t help.” One fact about security which you cannot avoid is that any one particula…
It's one of the many sad realities of the modern world that basic functions don't work and no one will fix them.