Posted by pantalaimon 10/25/2024
Or, in the words of the NSA, "Trust, but verify".
I agree that HTTPS is bad though, as it is used. We only do one-sided TLS, not mutual. Most people don't verify the server's cert by looking at it. Most apps don't encrypt messages before they go over TLS. In a more secure world a proxy with stateful packet inspection would not be possible.
As is often the case, the problem isn't technical (or at least not mainly technical). Employers, governments, and ISPs want proxies that inspect traffic, either for CYA or to increase budgets by increasing situational awareness. For governments, situational awareness increases wins by enabling them to catch people they deem bad actors. For employers and governments, increased SA means a decreased chance of leaks and people not doing what they're supposed to do with their time. For ISPs, it means they can monitor the traffic and restrict certain things (like video streaming, or running a server from home) to increase profit.
I can think of at least one potential solution. Still, it requires a technically savvy public, a patient public, and money: Open Source phones in everyone's hands, circles of trust, distributed freenet with data passed E2E encrypted via gossip protocol when two phones get near enough for Bluetooth data transmission (figure 50m roughly) where both phones are within some N degrees of separation via circles of trust. However, this mean's getting/sending data is asynchronous with long delays and no guarantees.
Seems far away, but it's literally happening in England.
Please watch out with this kind of thinking - it's dangerous to everyone.
So racism, homophobia, and transphobia? Why would you support technologies that promote and support the dissemination of hate speech and misinformation?
Historical content ought not to be censored at the behest of the morals of the present. There is great value in being able to access the content of the past in it's primary source form. If that makes me some sort of "ist" so be it.
It is not a thin line the one you are crossing.
Encryption isn't needed, because nothing important happens over the internet.
Nobody shops online, or does their banking online. Nobody would ever work from home over the internet - how would the boss know if workers were sleeping on the job? People who want to buy stocks from their phone simply phone their stockbroker. Anyone can post any nonsense on the internet, so it's useless for any serious research. Dating online, where anyone can lie about anything? I hardly think that's likely.
The idea that a control system for an important bit of infrastructure like a power plant would be connected to the internet? A car with a driver assistance system getting software updates over the internet? Utterly inconceivable.
A pandemic that shifts almost the entire economy and almost all socialisation online? I doubt that would ever happen. In my society, we cover our mouths when we sneeze, and wash our hands after using the bathroom.
Just look at the most valuable companies, that have driven the growth of the economy over recent decades. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix. If there's one thing they have in common, it's that they're absolutely nothing to do with the internet.
The internet is, at its heart, nothing more than a chatroom for shut-in losers to talk about pokemon - so there's no need for anything online to be private.
I disagree. Unless you’re being sarcastic?
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
If the 2nd Amendment applies to a modern firearm (and it should), then the 4th amendment has to apply to e-mails and text messages.
Privacy of correspondence might have had some relevance in the past, but today, with LLMs helping us work through the huge amount of data, every letter should automatically be scanned and added to a database for further consumption. Every telephone conversation. Actually, we should force phone manufacturers to turn their devices into permanent microphones and record everything they hear, gathered in public databases.
The best results from last week's search can then be read aloud in church or at community meetups.
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