From cc4f8ec72e61f9f878552dde8d7a0a241bfc036b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mohit Agarwal Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:18:42 +0100 Subject: Started properly writing. At 450 words. --- paper.tex | 43 ------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 43 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 paper.tex (limited to 'paper.tex') diff --git a/paper.tex b/paper.tex deleted file mode 100644 index ae2986d..0000000 --- a/paper.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -\input{formatting.tex} - -The role military intelligence has played both internationally and -domestically has greatly increased following modern developments and -continues to rapidly expand. - -\section{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. - -\section{The Stasi} - -The methods of the Stasi are often described as inducing fear in -citizens. - -\section{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. - -\section{The future} - -\section{Conclusions} -- cgit v1.2.3