Most people have always been and will always be vulnerable to their governments. No Safenet in the world is going to change that. The government can outlaw encryption like in China, or simply have their troopers keep you in a cage until you give up your passwords like they do at US airports. There isn’t even any need for waterboarding or “enhance-interrogating”. Or they can just come over to your house and shoot you in the face, like in Russia or Germany or Democratic Kampuchea or wherever at certain time periods.
Safenet will be nice to have for as long as the part of the world you happen to live in stays relatively “civilized”. Those times come and go in cycles. In a Mad Max/Tina Turner world (or, say, Afghanistan that has been bombed back to the stone age by either the USSR or the USA) nobody cares about luxuries like Safenet.
Well, they liked to burn books in ww2 to stop people reading anything other than their propaganda. Even if inaccessible or dangerous to access, at least that data will remain preserved and accessible by the brave.
About backdoors, If I understand correctly, if you want to be vertically safe you need:
Network (SAFE)
Routing (Mesh)
and…we ll also need proprietary open-source hardware at some point.
@joshuef I’m not sure if any of this is relevant to SAFE Browser design for security, but I mention you in case the points about electron, Chrome, Chromium etc are of value.
It’s an interesting thread regardless, involving Brendon Eich and one of his tech guys (of Brave).
If they can’t go after you for the thing they don’t like about your activities, they frame you or make up something, e.g. sexual assault allegations. The British powers that be destroy lives more subtly, but those days are close to the end…this year.
(I work for Purism but not on freeing the bootloader - but I do follow that work with interest).
More realistically in China however, than buying american bootloader-freed laptops, is the option of running cheap ARM-based devices instead - e.g. Pinebook: Pinebook - Wikipedia
Been living in that world in Australia for a number of decades now. We can even be taken to court because an officer heard us swearing. Its not the swearing that is illegal but that someone could hear us.
Nothing new about that really. They have been doing that for centuries.
And to make it easier there have been a number of laws introduce that means they do not need trumped up charges, everyone in AU is a crime doer of some sort. Even the Country Woman’s Association can have its members arrested with the association laws in our state and the others are similar.
What is new is the ease they can do it now.
But if they tried on the Maidsafe team then they still have not stopped development on SAFE. But in addition to what I said they have not done it to a team developing a protocol either. History can teach us much and help to dispel many conspiracy theories.
