[LINK] Tradeoffs in personal cybersecurity, Dan Geer

[Jim Birch]

The tensions between secrecy, privacy and security in the surveillance
state.

“Every time we ask the government to provide goodnesses that can only be
done with more data, we are asking government to collect more data.” “If
you are a pessimist, then your definition of a state of privacy will be
mine: the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself”

"The price of freedom is the probability of crime."

http://geer.tinho.net/geer.uncc.9x13.txt

Interesting talk that treats these questions as actual tradeoffs rather
than a black and white moral narrative. (Or a playground for recreational
outrage.)

- Jim