Our Responsibility to Defeat Mass Surveillance
summary
Argues that mass surveillance is real and harmful to activists and journalists, cites that roughly 42% of global email sits with five providers and top providers cover ~88–90% in some countries, warns that agencies retain encrypted mail indefinitely so encryption alone can mark targets, shows commercial reuse of leaked metadata (opaque pricing and insurance risk profiling), reports building Pixelated open-source AGPL email as a prototype, finds crypto libraries adequate but user experience and decentralised deployment are the hard problems to solve.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:42The Agile Manifesto
- 4:41Dark patterns
- 5:55Printer cartridges
- 6:40You have a choice
- 7:58Why I walk forward
- 8:18Are we doing the right thing
- 11:10Our profession has grave challenges
- 13:23The most important book of the 20th century
- 14:37The role of the net
- 20:21The role of software creators
- 21:50The needs of the users
- 23:03The bothersome people
- 23:51How to secure email
- 25:12The impact of webmail
- 28:57Privacy is the default
- 29:53The problem of bothersome people
- 34:36I have nothing to hide
- 38:52Leaked data
- 39:52Metadata
- 41:19pixelated
- 43:04cryptography
- 44:13license
- 48:12what can you do
- 50:54this is on us
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