Item — HN Reader

I absolutely would not give up on fighting the political angle of this. Public trust in government to be any more honest or effective than any other clump of people (corporation) is going down across the board, the time for a new political party is coming. We technically-aware people are a significant voting block.

Also, though I agree adding technical security is a MUST, what happens when the FBI hacks your computer directly to record the logs itself? Or backdoors your OS? Or even makes a law making TOR or the fundamental technologies of self protection into "hacker tools that subvert government's rightful knowledge?"

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Absolutely, I am not suggesting a defeatist posture. Rather, just design around the problem because that is what folks here can do. Those are the only actionable items I envision folks at HN contributing to. That said, I could incorrectly assuming that most here are technical in nature.

In my experience there just aren't enough people that care to actually do anything more than debate issues. Debate is a great way to think through problems and try to get the facts. Until these facts cost businesses a lot of money or put excessive burden on the courts, I just don't see this changing is all I am saying. If anything, this helps feed the self feeding system, so there just isn't any incentive for those in power to change deviate from business as usual.

In a morbid sense, I am actually curious to see how this plays out. They (the feds) may be opening a can of worms that is bigger than they imagine, as this may have other potentially complex legal ramifications that folks just didn't really think through.