Resurrecting an old thread here to make a point about the question, To
what extent are US GOV foreign policy decision-makers monolithic or
fractured?
Sometimes history offers a good window into thinking about these things.
For example, JFK losing control over Vietnam policy, just as he was
almost
Anthony Papillion writes:
It's up to us to protect ourselves and, thankfully, we have the
technology to do just that.
(As I suggested in a previous message, I strongly support greater use
of privacy-enhancing technologies, and finding tactics to increase the
demand for them.)
I think it's
On 06/07/2013 03:23 AM, Seth David Schoen wrote:
The best widely-used tool to defend against traffic analysis is Tor,
but Tor's developers readily concede that it has a lot of important
limitations and that there's no obvious path around many of them.
Two of these important limitations (not
OK, so the US government has no business, or rather no moral authority,
chiding other countries about freedom of speech!
On Jun 6, 2013 6:10 AM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote:
Dear Libtech,
We've waited a long time for this kind of FISA court document to leak -
we see clearly
No, it's really not - there are parts of the US gov (and VZ - I work
there and I feel the same way about all this as anyone here) that
oppose this type of blanket surveillance of an entire society. And if
you think everyone in the government is monolithic about foreign
policy, well, then there's a
Is there an online catalog of all those technologies? This is
extremely important for anyone contemplating civil disobedience
actions, or even just being very vocal about stuff that is wrong with
this country and others. I have the feeling that usability experts
are needed to make those techs
When I said MONOLITHIC I wasn't referring to all departments or
agencies inside government, or even less to individuals working
therein, but rather to the effect.
If the US government starts a war, it doesn't matter if 49.99% opposed
it. It's still going on and people get killed. For those
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 12:56:33PM -0500, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
wrote:
If the US government starts a war, it doesn't matter if 49.99% opposed
it. It's still going on and people get killed. For those people, and
their circles, the US government is MONOLITHIC.
