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Re: Equably when it comes to privacy

2013-09-08 13:59:53
On 9/8/13 10:37 AM, SM wrote:
At 07:07 08-09-2013, Jorge Amodio wrote:
You mean like Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia ....

There were people from Pakistan who participated in the IETF.  I recall
an email exchange where a person from that country received an
unpleasant comment from someone who is part of the IETF "leadership".

In my opinion a discussion about Country X or Country Y would take the
thread downhill.  It can also have a chilling effect.

State employment of legal and extra-legal means to spy on and capitalize
the activities of their own citizens and those of other states is
something that transcends boundries, cultural identity or ideology. It
doesn't much matter if you're David Dellinger, Neda Agha Sultan, Khalid
El-Masri, etc, if you'd ended up on the wrong side of a state apparatus,
well you're going to have a bad time of it.

Should your tools, the contents of your mind, and the various effects
and context of your personal communication become instruments of
state-power? Because the tools we've built are certainly capable of that.

At 05:14 08-09-2013, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
Another worrying aspect of [censored] is that it is named
after[censored]. They seem to be looking to make [censored] out of us.
They certainly seem to be endorsing [censored]. What should we think
if the [censored] had a similar program codenamed [censored]?

It would not look good.

Regards,
-sm

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