www/philosophy surveillance-vs-democracy.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/06/21 14:22:33

Modified files:
        philosophy     : surveillance-vs-democracy.html 

Log message:
        Mention the danger of leak of surveillance data to crackers.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.30&r2=1.31

Patches:
Index: surveillance-vs-democracy.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html,v
retrieving revision 1.30
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -b -r1.30 -r1.31
--- surveillance-vs-democracy.html      5 Jan 2015 13:36:06 -0000       1.30
+++ surveillance-vs-democracy.html      21 Jun 2015 14:22:25 -0000      1.31
@@ -118,10 +118,15 @@
 and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment";>the
 US </a>.</p>
 
-<p>Total surveillance plus vague law provides an opening for a massive
-fishing expedition against any desired target.  To make journalism and
-democracy safe, we must limit the accumulation of data that is easily
-accessible to the state.</p>
+<p>Personal data collected by the state is also likely to be obtained
+by crackers that break the security of the servers, even
+by <a 
href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150612/16334231330/second-opm-hack-revealed-even-worse-than-first.shtml";>crackers
+working for hostile states</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Total surveillance plus weak legal protections enable the state to
+launch a massive fishing expedition against any person.  To make
+journalism and democracy safe, we must limit the accumulation of data
+that is easily accessible to the state.</p>
 
 <h3>Robust Protection for Privacy Must Be Technical</h3>
 
@@ -505,7 +510,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/01/05 13:36:06 $
+$Date: 2015/06/21 14:22:25 $
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 </p>
 </div>