My neighbor is ex-FBI. We had a good discussion about GrapheneOS and the overall trend of increased device security.
I told them that I certainly want law enforcement to be able to catch bad guys, and there are real bad guys the whole of public needs caught and brought to justice.
And also that when I'm in my house with my family, I expect to be able to achieve total privacy and security through whatever means. He agrees with that and wants it too.
I told him that when I'm out in public, I still expect to be secure within my own affects. My own vehicle. My own devices. These are my property not public property. He agrees.
Where we disagree is what happens after a warrant. He says LE need the ability to break in if it's legal and Apple etc shouldn't be going to war with the State here. I said that customers have been on the abusive side of State surveillance and its perfectly reasonable for technology companies to offer more secure and private offerings that people would self select out of a sense of common decency, not wanting to be forced to be naked.
At the end of the day, I want to own my devices. If there is a warrant, that gives me a bargaining chip. I can always decline access if I so choose.
That's a better balance of power that doesn't force every man, woman, and child to be strip searched at all times. And I think the world is moving in this direction.
Privacy is about dignity.
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The analogy of an open air prison is the most effective. The more privacy and dignity the public gives up, the more the public space becomes like an open air prison.
At some point, the dignity is so low that you breed a slave society that collapses. I think we're on this trajectory.
No privacy + involuntary bond debt + gaurateed confiscation (inflation) + can be physically forced to fight in wars....
What is this if not slavery or at least bondage?
Social credit and the constant checkpointing and digital strip searches....
We have to claw back some dignity for the average person before the State crushes what's left of mankind's most basic right: to dignity.
> He says LE need the ability to break in if it's legal
Bullshit. Why?
Because the state is a psychopath, and those "rules and laws" that the state itself wrote = for suckers who believe in them.
The state itself will break the law as soon as the opportunity presents itself, they'll put you in prison, and then from prison you'll spend decades proving that the state broke the law, and you'll be writing all sorts of democratic things to all sorts of democratic courts, and proving on paper that you're not a camel.
No, fuck that shit. I'm grateful that I have FOSS and GrapheneOS, which I can destroy at any second, and I don't give a shit about their "laws".
"My house, my devices, my property" shouldn't even be up for debate