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DIRNSA Fired - Schneier on Security (USA news) (www.schneier.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60646069

In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote:

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

It’s something a bunch of us were saying at the time, in reference to the vast NSA’s surveillance capabilities.

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[–] who@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Normally, a well-functioning democracy has ways to remove these people from power. But the wrong technology infrastructure could allow such a future government to watch every move anyone makes to oppose it. It could very well be the last government we ever elect.