Tag: dialogue

  1. Dominant discourse.

    18 August 2013

    Since the NSA revelations began coming a couple of times a week for the past month, an all too common set of dialogues has been cropping up again and again and again in practically every forum that one would care to visit. While the discussion itself isn't perfectly replicated the overall pattern is. It goes something like this:


    • Brief description of vulnerability. Mitigating tactic.
    • Mention of a vulnerability elsewhere in the user's system.
    • Description of a slightly more esoteric vulnerability.
    • Use another system.
    • Encrypt everything.
    • Quantum computer.
    • Use Tor.
    • Tor can't protect against country-level surveillance.
    • NSA backdoor.
    • The NSA has …

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