[smc-discuss] Facebook and Google spy on you

[Pirate Praveen]

On Monday 17 November 2014 10:14 PM, Hrishi wrote:
> *WHAT IF *your research could help solve a looming national problem, but
> government officials thought publishing it would be tantamount to
> treason? A Stanford professor and his graduate students found themselves
> in that situation 37 years ago, when their visionary work on computer
> privacy issues ran afoul of the National Security Agency. At the time,
> knowledge of how to encrypt and decrypt information was the domain of
> government; the NSA feared that making the secrets of cryptography
> public would severely hamper intelligence operations. But as the
> researchers saw it, society’s growing dependence on computers meant that
> the private sector would also need effective measures to safeguard
> information. Both sides’ concerns proved prescient; their conflict
> foreshadowed what would become a universal tug-of-war between
> privacy-conscious technologists and security-conscious government officials.
> 
> 
> https://medium.com/stanford-select/keeping-secrets-84a7697bf89f

Thanks Hrishi for sharing this, there is an Eben Moglen interview in
Washington Post and he says "People love spying on one another"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/19/people-love-spying-on-one-another-a-qa-with-facebook-critic-eben-moglen/

"The democratization of technology has allowed a lot of things to happen
before people understood
 them very well. But if Mr. Zuckerberg wanted to create an honorable
Facebook, in which there
 was no super-friend, he could have done so. It was a dark machine by
design from the beginning."

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