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It didn't have to be this way. This wasn't a technology failure. It wasn't a commercial failure. It was a policy failure. Since the 1990s, whenever push came to shove, governments decided that they would rather preserve *their* ability to spy on us than keep us safe from *private* spying.
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It's amazing to realize that the privacy-invading internet has somehow beaten the encrypted internet. It's crazy that the only entity that will promise to encrypt your data beyond the reach of a data broker, an ad-tech giant, or a government is a *ransomware criminal*, who will also encrypt your data beyond *your* reach:
https://www.wired.com/story/state-of-ransomware-2024/
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It didn't have to be this way. This wasn't a technology failure. It wasn't a commercial failure. It was a policy failure. Since the 1990s, whenever push came to shove, governments decided that they would rather preserve *their* ability to spy on us than keep us safe from *private* spying.
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Miami, #Burbank and #Libson!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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@pluralistic any chance to catch you in Lisbon paying less than EUR 1k for that?
@daniel Sorry, that's the thing that brought me to the EU. I'll be doing events in Spain, Switzerland and Belgium in the new year.
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