So, encryption is bad because our doo-gooder international police forces can't read the messages of the terrorists?
I find it hard to believe that someone this high up the totem-pole would not be able to come up with better arguments about why the government (especially the UK one) has lost the 'hearts and minds' of its constituents and what could be done about it when it comes to encryption.
If you make everybody a suspect without prior cause then people will start to behave as if they're under suspicion.
When in the past 'encrypted communications' probably counted as some kind of red flag the value of that flag has been diminished or even eradicated because the government has driven ordinary people to be worried about their conversations to the point that so many people use encryption now that just using encryption is no longer a signal.
So they're going to have to expend a ton of computing power on monitoring networks of ordinary people in order to catch a few miscreants. On the whole the only things they've achieved is that the haystack is now much much larger than it used to be and that people trust their governments less than ever before when it comes to privacy issues.
Well done! I'm curious what they'll come up with next, outlawing of encryption is probably high up on the agenda in at least a few countries.
The thinly veiled message to tech firms to give Europol and the likes unfettered access to un-encrypted messages will surely be received with open arms, I think all those companies whose logos featured prominently on Snowdens documents still remember those disclosures fondly.
Something should be said about the radicalization/brainwashing that security personnel in the GCHQ/NSA/&etc. services must endure in order to keep their jobs.
I'm familiar with a few folks in this industry, and what they have been through - in the form of an internal training regimen designed to condition them for their positions - can only be described, at best, as brainwashing.
They're given repeated exposure to highly graphic videos depicting the results of terrorist activities. They're exposed to extremely highly polished videos and presentations on the subject of attacks against Western society. They're expected to demonstrate that they can handle these artifacts and still maintain their position on posts that will be secret, and highly sensitive. All the while, they are expected to continue their embedded lives in these societies.
A great deal of psychological manipulation is required to keep these people in their positions - it is not nearly well enough scrutinized by the public, in my opinion.
Those who give themselves the right to psychologically program the security operatives who maintain that terror is the #1 reason for the usurpation of civil rights, must be investigated further by the public at large. There is much radicalization occurring within the halls of GCHQ that is highly offensive to our western values and society at large suffers when these secret psyops are allowed to continue to occur within the inner circles of security power.
That it has become industrialized as a means of producing "qualified personnel" is something that must, without question, be addressed by the public at large - too much trust is being placed in people whose principle job is to manipulate the psychology, and thus the motivation, of the military-industrial security elite.
We should all be really concerned given that a majority of the technologies being funded to fight terrorism are nothing but pseudoscience in addition to being contrary to respecting civil liberties. The inability to question the legitimacy of any of these programs is doing more public harm than good. Beyond that, we are putting an enormous amount of power in the hands of a few individuals who despite having the best intentions can still make poor decisions or even cognitively make decisions that knowingly jeopardize public safety. I am worried that there is now no economic incentive for these individuals to prevent violence if their failures and abuses are only awarded with more power and resources. Instead we will just continue to write blank checks for psuedoscience that will further promote a growing divide between the public and their governments.
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I find it hard to believe that someone this high up the totem-pole would not be able to come up with better arguments about why the government (especially the UK one) has lost the 'hearts and minds' of its constituents and what could be done about it when it comes to encryption.
If you make everybody a suspect without prior cause then people will start to behave as if they're under suspicion.
When in the past 'encrypted communications' probably counted as some kind of red flag the value of that flag has been diminished or even eradicated because the government has driven ordinary people to be worried about their conversations to the point that so many people use encryption now that just using encryption is no longer a signal.
So they're going to have to expend a ton of computing power on monitoring networks of ordinary people in order to catch a few miscreants. On the whole the only things they've achieved is that the haystack is now much much larger than it used to be and that people trust their governments less than ever before when it comes to privacy issues.
Well done! I'm curious what they'll come up with next, outlawing of encryption is probably high up on the agenda in at least a few countries.
The thinly veiled message to tech firms to give Europol and the likes unfettered access to un-encrypted messages will surely be received with open arms, I think all those companies whose logos featured prominently on Snowdens documents still remember those disclosures fondly.
I'm familiar with a few folks in this industry, and what they have been through - in the form of an internal training regimen designed to condition them for their positions - can only be described, at best, as brainwashing.
They're given repeated exposure to highly graphic videos depicting the results of terrorist activities. They're exposed to extremely highly polished videos and presentations on the subject of attacks against Western society. They're expected to demonstrate that they can handle these artifacts and still maintain their position on posts that will be secret, and highly sensitive. All the while, they are expected to continue their embedded lives in these societies.
A great deal of psychological manipulation is required to keep these people in their positions - it is not nearly well enough scrutinized by the public, in my opinion.
Those who give themselves the right to psychologically program the security operatives who maintain that terror is the #1 reason for the usurpation of civil rights, must be investigated further by the public at large. There is much radicalization occurring within the halls of GCHQ that is highly offensive to our western values and society at large suffers when these secret psyops are allowed to continue to occur within the inner circles of security power.
That it has become industrialized as a means of producing "qualified personnel" is something that must, without question, be addressed by the public at large - too much trust is being placed in people whose principle job is to manipulate the psychology, and thus the motivation, of the military-industrial security elite.