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+title: The Stasi and the nature of surveillance
+author: Mohit Agarwal
+date: July 2021
+bibliography: ["reference.bib"]
+biblio-style: "harvard"
+link-citations: true
+---
+
+here is some text [@stasiland] and some more and more
+
+# Surveillance in powerful systems
+
+A government may get involved in the regular surveillance of its
+citizens for many reasons. The interception of communications are
+readily visible (inelegant) including the interception of mail in the
+American colonies by the British in the years before the American
+Revolution. This also included the change and destruction of
+information, yet the purpose remains the same as modern surveillance:
+to watch over citizens that the ruling authority does not trust or
+claims cannot be trusted. Those who wish to monitor modern electronic
+communications may suggest that such an operation exists in the
+interest of the safety of the public, by stopping crime and terrorism.
+
+# The prevalence of the Stasi
+
+Much of the Stasi's strength came from its numbers. The Stasi was able
+to infiltrate every facet of the East German society to an astounding
+extent. The reputation of the Stasi is well deserved from the power to
+plant the seeds of doubt within the population. 
+
+The methods of the Stasi are often described as inducing fear in
+citizens.
+
+# The end of the Stasi
+
+Perhaps the most interesting 
+
+# Conclusions
+
+In a sense the reality of the Stasi and the ways in which it impacted
+the lives of people in East Germany present us with an opportiunity to
+look carefully at a surveillance state that so recently fell apart.
+There are many people alive today who have lived under the influence
+of the Stasi and are yet to share their stories. It is by
+understanding the Stasi that we can understand the increasingly
+visible surveillance in our current societies, and avoid reliving the
+experiences of others that we don't expect to through naivety and
+don't wish to once we are shown them.
+
+The nature of surveillance and the way in which technology enables it,
+just as the Stasi were able to make use of telephone calls to spy on
+citizens, is something that we cannot ignore, given our knowledge of
+the past. Mass surveillance and the impacts it has are naturally not
+limited to the Stasi, yet the seeming otherworldliness of events in
+East Germany feel like looking clearly through a lens, particularly in
+comparison to trying to make sense of the societies we live in. Thus
+the opportunity information about the Stasi provides is a very
+valuable one, given the clear view and judgement we are able to have
+on it and thus our potential to learn more from it than other examples
+of survaillance.
+
+<-- horrible ending
+
+\nocite{*}
+
+# References and bibliography