[Motherboard] Jacob Appelbaum’s Utopia

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Jacob Appelbaum has been called the « most dangerous man in cyberspace ». But he’s not, and it’s a tag that pisses him off. Because, in reality, Appelbaum is merely a renowned cyber-security expert who happens to be one of the developers for the Tor Project, a collaborator with WikiLeaks (he’s co-authoring a book with Julian Assange), and a trusted confidante of Edward Snowden confidante Laura Poitras, with whom he’s working on the NSA leaks for Der Spiegel. […]

The utopian worlds we used to think about were these future perfect worlds, and I think now one of the utopian ideals that people have is the idea that you can still have democracy, which is a very sad utopian goal in my mind. […]

They know damn well that they’re violating everyone’s rights; they’re breaking the wiretap act so often you can’t even begin to punish them. If they just wiretapped one person one time it would be a major felony, but if you do it 330 million times a second, what is that? Well, it’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a business plan. […]

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