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The thing is, if I was running the NSA and I wanted to make sure folks didn't use effective, widely-available, proven encryption tools to protect themselves from my multi-billion-dollar dragnet surveillance machine, what would I do..?
Oh, wait. I'd just spread a meme that it was useless to try to use encryption. That all encryption is super-secretly "backdoored" anyway. And that it was useless to try to protect yourself, because the NSA has super-magical powers that transcend the reality of our universe and its mathematics. And that anyone who says otherwise is a secret NSA stooge - so don't trust anyone who offers counter-FUD. It's a hermetically sealed, self-reinforcing circle of bleh.
So if folks bought into my FUD, and spread it, I'd cut out a big chunk of the most effective resistance out there. Because FUD works... well, it works if people aren't willing to take the time and effort to actually dig out facts. Hunting down and testing facts is, admittedly, alot more work than just engaging in fatalistic FUD, but on the upside it's not pathetically defeatist.
Just sayin'...
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Oh, wait. I'd just spread a meme that it was useless to try to use encryption. That all encryption is super-secretly "backdoored" anyway. And that it was useless to try to protect yourself, because the NSA has super-magical powers that transcend the reality of our universe and its mathematics. And that anyone who says otherwise is a secret NSA stooge - so don't trust anyone who offers counter-FUD. It's a hermetically sealed, self-reinforcing circle of bleh.
So if folks bought into my FUD, and spread it, I'd cut out a big chunk of the most effective resistance out there. Because FUD works... well, it works if people aren't willing to take the time and effort to actually dig out facts. Hunting down and testing facts is, admittedly, alot more work than just engaging in fatalistic FUD, but on the upside it's not pathetically defeatist.
Just sayin'...
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