The usual null
The usual "privacy" advocates are getting weeweed up as usual about Yahoo's admission that it let FBI have all sorts of info without "warrants". The usual techboys are responding in the usual way by pushing various fancy forms of blockchain and encryption.

All of them are missing the big point. From the START, the Web has been a branch of NSA. Everything you do on the Web is known to NSA. That was the WHOLE FUCKING PURPOSE of the Web.

It doesn't matter if Yahoo opens up a secondary channel with or without "warrants". "Warrants" no longer exist because the 1787 Constitution died in 1803.

Only three facts matter.

(1) Everything is accessible to NSA.

(2) NSA rarely if ever does anything with the information it gets.

(3) NSA designs all encryption, so NSA can decode all encryption.

Result: Null.

You don't need to worry about the passive absorption of info by NSA, and it doesn't matter if you encrypt or not. There's no evidence that any info acquired through this channel causes any real events. No arrests of real terrorists, no arrests of real criminals, no arrests of innocent bystanders. Nothing. It's just mindless consumption. It's just good old Parkinson.

You really need to worry about active efforts by FBI and all sorts of NGOs and cults. Agents provocateurs and recruiters. If a "support group" or "friend" or "political party" is persuading you to participate in some kind of protest, or persuading you to adopt a set of beliefs, DON'T GO ALONG. Don't accept ideological rides from strangers or "friends".

One of those "support groups" is the abovementioned privacy movement, persuading you to participate in specific encryptions or blockchain shit.


[If you're seriously and professionally using and exchanging information that seriously needs to be private, you already know how to do it. Old ways, not Web ways.]



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