Comment by driverdan
12 years ago
> Jeez, that's way too paranoid
Of course it is, it's ridiculous. What the NSA is doing is despicable but why would that keep you from creating a user account or viewing a webpage from your computer?
12 years ago
> Jeez, that's way too paranoid
Of course it is, it's ridiculous. What the NSA is doing is despicable but why would that keep you from creating a user account or viewing a webpage from your computer?
Because some users do not have the privilege of doing even such rudimentary tasks, without the danger of being persecuted, prosecuted or worse by the tyrant regime they happen to be living under.
Right, but Richard Stallman is not one of those people.
Right, but the idea is that if enough people with Stallman methodologies emerge, then the services that cater to those people must adapt or fail.
It's the same concept as 'voting with your dollar'. It works, he just chose a set of methodologies that are unlikely to become popular enough to change things..
But the fact that we are dicussing him & his methodologies in relationship to security is exactly his goal. He isn't advocating for everyone to emulate his ideas of how to use the internet, he is advocating the idea that people must truly think about what the repercussions of their usage actually entail.
rms experienced the sixties. that might be a signifigant factor in his choice of protest. hell, he even relates DoS attacks to modern day sit-ins.