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Ok, so this is going to come with a trigger warning. I’m about to talk about evil… or rather, what I define as evil. In my vernacular evil is the act of voluntarily inflicting suffering on another for gain. It might not be accurate, but it’s a decent enough starting point. Why are you talking about this, nerd? I live in America and have friends spanning both sides of the political aisle. Friends from one party blame every problem of evil on the friends of the other party and vice versa. ...

If you’ve dealt with the hacker and security crowd for any amount of time, you’ll know that a lot of us are invested in techniques that help us preserve privacy. We’ll also cry foul when Governments and Corporations across the planet implement some kind of a compensating control or law that will limit, curtail, or derail privacy. The arguments haven’t changed since the freaking 60’s, but the strongest arrow in the quiver of the powerful is this phrase: ...