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Kompromat

Posted Oct 6, 2013 12:53 UTC (Sun) by rich0 (guest, #55509)
In reply to: Kompromat by tialaramex
Parent article: Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)

Couldn't agree more.

I think that the ultimate solution to Kompromat will be the utter destruction of privacy. Kompromat only can exist when there is information asymmetry. If EVERYBODY knows EVERYTHING about EVERYBODY then it simply can't exist at all.

We should all be mounting cameras on our homes and cars, archiving all footage and publishing it on the internet, and mining the video for facial recognition and number identification and uploading that data to distributed public databases. Then everybody can look up the activities of anybody and we'll all have to come to grips with the fact that everybody does stuff that nobody talks about in public today.


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Kompromat

Posted Oct 6, 2013 13:56 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

If EVERYBODY knows EVERYTHING about EVERYBODY then it simply can't exist at all.

But everybody can't know everything! You can only know and remember so much. Which means that even if all information is in the open you still can affect who's transgressions will be discussed in press at what times.

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