Greenwald's keynote at 30c3: priorities for privacy activists(jameso.be)
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Greenwald's keynote at 30c3: priorities for privacy activists
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Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJIR0-KJu0
If you hack corporations you can very defintly "get a gun pointed at you". There are laws against hacking, even hacking corporations, and you can be convicted. You can also be sued.
Agreed. Swartz wasn't convicted of hacking the government. He was accused of hacking a private corporation. The fact that it was the government prosecuting it like they did shows how little difference there is between the targets.
Why isn't his idea "romanticized", too? Also, if anything, it's the governments that should have total transparency, not the citizens. They are the public people working on the interest of the public, and the public should be able to verify that what they're doing is in its interest. Instead, we see the opposite. They're trying to make every person an open book to them, while they're increasingly denying FOIA requests, to the point where even the police does it (NYPD especially).
That's not how it's supposed to work. Maybe Hayden and the others that think like him, should give up on the idea of "romanticized" tyranny, that they want to establish.