She's done some cool uncontroversial tech work too (like helping start M-Lab), but her advocacy is what is most interesting to me. I don't agree with all of her positions, but I like that there are still people in the tech world who are willing to take strong and sometimes radical stances on moral issues against the current of capitalism. I feel like she's the closest thing we have to an rms-type figure today.
I suppose you could detect some patterns, and it definitely wouldn't be clickable. But is the text google.com considered a URL for example? I guess it isn't?
(yeah I know, it's a stupid law anyway, but just wondering)
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In both cases, they identify and scan something.
Not sure, if there is out at all.
No, as I understood the GP comment, if you opt out there won't be anything for them to identify and scan, because you can't send anything.
> Not sure, if there is out at all.
Sure there is: You can opt out from being on the Internet.
Of course incentive systems make that very hard in today's corporate world, but I can still wish for my ideal world.
This helps against everything except a valid search warrant from your government. If you don't do outright illegal stuff, and don't live under an authoritarian regime, it should be fine. (If you do both, you have bigger problems.)
Until somebody figures out a non-dystopian way to achieve that, I'll stick with end-to-end encryption, though.
If you want to opt out of that, I can't stop you – I bet you'll be able to find an entity that will take both your money and your encryption keys. I just don't want that to become the default, or even only, way of doing things.
But Signal doesn't want that, and most people are too cowardly to trust anyone other than the people who absolutely must make a profit running such a system.
But need I go into the little rant about how signal controlling the clients and the network means you have to take it on trust?
However the point of federation is that you can find someone you trust. - and you get to control data residency, all those weird hard to comply with laws become super easy if your uncle hosts a family chat server that federates with others; or your ISP, or your favourite local library.
Try taking to normal people. They will find their pitchforks if you mention encryption and privacy.
