From 28d2028002a9c578e056928d1458d10f3fc95127 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 02:26:48 +0000 Subject: Linking open technology to surveillance. 2700 words. --- paper.ms | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/paper.ms b/paper.ms index 53ecfaa..21790bd 100644 --- a/paper.ms +++ b/paper.ms @@ -194,7 +194,17 @@ agencies and counterterrorism forces. The tools of mass surveillance that once enabled investigation into crime or terror such as reading messages/emails, listening to calls, tracking location, or analysing metadata (cite?) may no longer be effective, thereby potentially -preventing such investigation to occur. +preventing such investigation to occur. For governments, this is +arguably the result of such heavy surveillance in the first place. +It's clear that knowledge such as the 2013 Snowden leaks had an impact +on the public (cite), and that people are therby more interested in +their privacy and preventing surveillance. The exception to this has +been in China, where the government has unparalleled control over the +flow of information over the internet. This has allowed the filtering +of content, prevention from accessing sites, and the blocking of the +anonymity network Tor which would allow users to circumvent measures +put in place by the government {firewall} (cite for Tor). (research: +would such measures even work in western world?) In addition, the rate of development in unconventional computing methods is increasing rapidly. Effective quantum computing will -- cgit v1.2.3