On Sun, Aug 24, 2014, at 15:19, taltman wrote: > I don't know exactly what is meant by "eventuality of digital book > burning", but here's my opinion on the nuts and bolts of protecting your > data:
I believe we are approaching a Library of Alexandria moment. We have created an Information Age in which nothing is secure, and deleting unwanted information ("thought crime") is trivial. Furthermore, infotech has redistributed power from the people to the government. It would be naive to expect this power to go unabused. Totalitarianism is in the wind. If we really want a permanent archive of humanity's work, we need to build some kind of distributed Noah's Ark. Archive.org is no good (book depositories are the first to go when the book-burning starts), and asking the book-burners at the NSA and GCHQ to guard our civilization's store of knowledge is laughable on its face. Something P2P, maybe blockchain-based, might work. Convincing people of the reality and urgency of the threat is another matter. Jens -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com -- 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.