"Plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack)

Freedom or safety: choose one. This is the false bargain we were offered after 9/11, the ideology underpinning the PATRIOT Act and the (permanent) suspension of human rights. This ideology has metastasized out of the realm of airport security theater and mass surveillance, ossifying into a bedrock axiom about technology design itself..."

#BigTech #Security #Privacy #FreeSoftware #Apple #Google #Microsoft #GNU #Linux
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/29/works-well/#fails-well