As nerds, we're neither inclined nor skilled in the ways of killing, and we enjoy our modern comforts, so we opt for technical workarounds instead.
Eh, that's the most extreme end. Political freedom from authority is won by having more power, period. That power can come in many forms, but at its most primal can come from having the capability of lethal force. The power of a representative government is supposed to be in being able to vote out those that are destroying you, not in you having to take up arms to solve the issue.
I highly suggest people read Debt: The First 5000 Years. It's pretty life changing.
Some powerful organizations are doing a lot of illegal surveillance for decades despite of those laws.
Shall we stop using HTTPS in the meantime?
That's the idea with Freedombox. Host your own email server, website, chat server. Servers nowadays are called "clouds", so the idea is to have a "cloud" in your own home, under your control.
It's very similar to arkOS:
https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/goals/index.en.html
But nothing on this page is clear exactly which software packages are included, or how the distributed filesystem is federated, etc.
Here are the packages that are currently included: https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth/tree/master/plinth/modu...
That's tor, owncloud, openVPN, mumble, pagekite, xmpp, ikiwiki, shaarli, transmission, roundcube.
There are also plenty of ideas for new applications/services/protocols, like replacing DNS, that would be a good fit.
Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSLBvwyUEs
Transcript / Highlights / More https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations#A20...:
Really worth watching.
It’s a distribution to run on a small “plug server” in your home.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7358702n
Not sure if these guys are still selling them:
http://projectdanube.org/freedombox/
The idea is nearly the same as what arkOS is trying to do:
* Minimal effort install to a local machine as well as any of the major cloud providers, and some sort of architecture to easily add more providers.
* Clear separation of system/apps and data
* ability to easily backup and migrate data from one installation to another
* Commercial providers that specifically provide setup, hosting, and support for this solution
With these features, you could choose your level of privacy and effort, and be assured that you will have a sustainable system in the future, even when you're working 12 hour days during that crunch and have no time to mess with your personal cloud.
https://softwarefreedom.org/events/2015/conference/video.htm...
