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One thing I wish everyone writing about privacy tools would realize is that if you create a tool that's safe for political dissidents, Nazis will also use it. If you create a tool that safe for anarcho-capitalists, socialists will also use it. If a tool's 100% private, anyone by definition can and will use it, and if you put in a backdoor to keep out or keep up with that one group (whichever one), it'll eventually be used on everyone.
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Wired editors are trying to stay off the "free mandatory vacation to FEMA re-education canp" list.
Ironically, they'll probably be the first to go.
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'Wired did not respond to our request for comment.' Says a lot.
Many industry focused consumer publications that once ran articles with journalistic standards are now mouthpieces, astroturfing campaigns and shaping puplic consensus.
If we accept trash diction such as neo-nazi, we must also accept vague historically referenced counterparts: neo-feudal, neo-commie.. obviously, mostly utterly meaningless.
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Wired’s article was trash.
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Wired, like most things, has been trash since about 2001.
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It's a good sign where these things happen, it means it is starting to bother them.
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