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Re: [Cryptography] Angry Cryptographers...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Tue Jan 28 17:19:51 2014
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:12:42 -0800
From: Stephen Williams <sdw@lig.net>
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On 1/28/14, 1:14 PM, RB wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This latest NSA atrocity is the last straw.
>> http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-angry-birds-nsa-british-spy-surveillance-20140127,0,4194888.story#axzz2riz3A5TH
> While I realize the subject is a play on the application of note in
> the article, your words would appear to indicate it means something
> for you personally as well.
>
> "The last straw", a reference to the story of the straw that broke the
> camel's back, often used as a modern English euphemism for "now I am
> angry." In the parochial words of an average bully, "what are you
> going to do about it?" Americans like to get angry about things now
> and again, but rarely do more than grumble. Grumble publicly if it
Depends on the definition of 'rarely' I suppose. There's a big
difference between rarely and never.
One could point to a wide range of political (Tea Party, MoveOn, Occupy,
etc.), technological (browsers and much of the Internet, Amazon,
Google/Android, Apple, PGP, etc.), educational (Kahn, MOOCs, etc.), and
other areas where someone has done a little more than grumble to
transform the world. Where someone is often American, complemented by
EU, Canadian, Austrailian, Japanese/Chinese/Indian, and a smattering of
others.
There are all kinds of possibilities for action, depending on your
goals. How would you characterize those goals?
> really has their knickers in a knot, and they might even write a
> sternly-worded email to their "representatives" if they feel near
> blood. I am as guilty as any, ensconced in my warm office using
> services provided by one of the very companies that gathers such
> volumes of data.
>
> Do we see the problem yet? Do we care?
sdw
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