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user-inactivated · 3078 days ago · link · · parent · post: Internet of Things security is so bad, there’s a search engine for sleeping kids
Indefinite detention as LART? I don't think I've ever seen anyone make that connection. I think the problem with mass surveillance is more subtle than that though. I think I've recommended Discipline and Punish in threads about surveillance often enough to be tedious, but I think his analysis of the panopticon really is the definitive argument against mass surveillance. If you might be watched at any time you always act as if you are being watched. The effect being the watcher has on the watcher doesn't really matter; the harm is done even if the mechanism exist but no one is using it.