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Our readingWhat is a korrent?

When everyone is monitored and everyone breaks some obscure law, punishment stops being lawful and becomes purely selective.

Drawn from what Moxie Marlinspike said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

privacy Keeping what people say to each other between them: end-to-end encryption, backdoors, and what a company will shut down rather than break.

What Moxie Marlinspike actually said

  1. Moxie Marlinspike Cryptographer who created the Signal Protocol and founded Signal
    Police already abuse the immense power they have, but if everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective. Those in power will essentially have what they need to punish anyone they’d like, whenever they choose, as if there were no rules at all.

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