11.16.1. Surveillance and monitoring will serve to increase the use of
encryption, at first by people with something to hide, and
then by others
- a snowballing effect
- and various government agencies will themselves use
encryption to protect their files and their privacy
11.16.2. for those in sensitive positions, the availability of new
bugging methods will accelerate the conversion to secure
systems based on encrypted telecommunications and the
avoidance of voice-based systems
11.16.3. Surveillance Trends
+ Technology is making citizen-unit surveillance more and
more trivial
+ video cameras on every street corners are technologically
easy to implement, for example
- or cameras in stores, in airports, in other public
places
- traffic cameras
- tracking of purchases with credit cards, driver's
licenses, etc.
- monitoring of computer emissions (TEMPEST issues, often a
matter of paranoid speculation)
+ interception of the Net...wiretapping, interception of
unencrypted communications, etc.
- and compilation of dossier entries based on public
postings
+ This all makes the efforts to head-off a person-tracking,
credentials-based society all the more urgent.
Monkeywrenching, sabotage, public education, and
development of alternatives are all needed.
- If the surveillance state grows as rapidly as it now
appears to be doing, more desperate measures may be
needed. Personally, I wouldn't shed any tears if
Washington, D.C. and environs got zapped with a terrorist
nuke; the innocents would be replaced quickly enough, and
the death of so many political ghouls would surely be
worth it. The destruction of Babylon.
+ We need to get the message about "blinded credentials"
(which can show some field, like age, without showing all
fields, including name and such) out there. More
radically, we need to cause people to question why
credentials are as important as many people seem to
think.
- I argue that credentials are rarely needed for mutually
agreed-upon transactions
By Tim May, see README
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