Hi Fabio, Quoth Fabio Pietrosanti (naif): > A frequent thinking is, how can we "troll" the surveillance industry > with unconventional methods? > > A very nice, yet controversial, way could be to improve Opensource > Surveillance Technologies.
OK, at best this would succeed in shrinking the surveillance industry, due to being primarily for support and training, rather than licensing. But what you're really enabling is easier and more effective surveillance, so overall I can't imagine a scenario based on this tactic where the amount of surveillance and censorship was reduced. Your email reads like a troll of the list, frankly, but regardless, the topic is related something I have worried about myself; I work on free OCR software that I know is being used in surveillance programmes. It isn't something I am happy about, but I decided that I should continue to work on the software, as it's useful and important outside of the world of surveillance too. Nick -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
