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The Stasi and the modern capacity for military intelligence

Mohit Agarwal <https://mohit.uk>

June 2021

The role military intelligence has played both internationally and domestically has greatly increased following modern developments and continues to rapidly expand.

Technology enables surveillance (?)

The Stasi

The present day

The traditional means by which enforcement authorities may investigate an individual or organisation is by obtaining permission to do so on the basis of adequate suspicion of illegal activity. Such a requirement prevents the unnecessary and ongoing violation of individual rights that may be considered highly present in societies around the world, enabled in part or in whole by modern technology.

In a sense, modern technology could have been the ultimate enabler for privacy. The promise of modern encryption is such that a communication physically cannot be read by anyone other than the intended recipient, and the decentralised nature of the internet could mean an escape from central authorities in our communication such as a governmental postal service.

The future

Conclusions

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