The Subject of Privacy

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@Gaoler

I don’t think these are wars on anything, but over. Privacy is not a binary, it’s a balance and crypto is not much different - governments are going to have decide what balance they’re willing to accept.

Government already allows cash, which is actually very very good for money laundering and a whole host of illegal activities including terrorist funding in fact

So to concur, cryptos are about the next step down in privacy from cash, since there’s a public ledger about each transaction

@N26throwaway

The actions of western governments have been commonly accepted and referred to by my peers, experts on the matter, as a war on privacy.

Would also agree with this, it’s the whole reason I went into CyberSec; to learn how to avoid overly strict government control and surveillance.

Governments are not for privacy, they just want to pretend terrorism is a big enough issue that they can get away with eroding it.

Fun fact, currently the US has so much data that they cannot effectively process it, in fact. They’re just waiting for technology to catch up to it, GCHQ is probably the same.