Bruce Schneier: The Internet is a surveillance state - CNN.com
►http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html
Maintaining privacy on the Internet is nearly impossible. If you forget even once to enable your protections, or click on the wrong link, or type the wrong thing, and you’ve permanently attached your name to whatever anonymous service you’re using. Monsegur slipped up once, and the FBI got him. If the director of the CIA can’t maintain his privacy on the Internet, we’ve got no hope.
In today’s world, governments and corporations are working together to keep things that way. Governments are happy to use the data corporations collect — occasionally demanding that they collect more and save it longer — to spy on us. And corporations are happy to buy data from governments. Together the powerful spy on the powerless, and they’re not going to give up their positions of power, despite what the people want.
Fixing this requires strong government will, but they’re just as punch-drunk on data as the corporations.
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Welcome to an Internet without privacy, and we’ve ended up here with hardly a fight.
Bruce Schneier "Wir leben in einem Überwachungsstaa ▻http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2013-03/bruce-schneier-interview-security/komplettansicht