/cyb/ - cyberpunk and cybersecurity

I've been lurking around, i see all of these articles and threads and whatnot about being like super-duper anonymous online and keeping away from all sort of data-mining or 'surveillance'. But nowhere does it explain the motivation behind it. Can you either explain this to me or link me to an explanation on why this is important?
This is coming from someone who doesn't care that his porn-bookmarks might be datamined for google-ads, someone that doesn't mind if their phone number is next to another thousand of phonenumbers because i put it on facebook so people can find me easily, i just dont see the point of going through the inconvenience of dodging all of these nets that want to know what websites i frequent the most.

>http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/how-the-turnbull-government-plans-to-access-encrypted-messages-20170609-gwoge0.html

>The rapid proliferation of encrypted messaging by terrorist networks has prompted the Turnbull government to look at changing laws to force telecommunications and technology firms to help authorities decrypt suspect messages.

This is why we use FOSS Lains, whats next, mandatory HTTPS proxies?

What is it with Anglo States becoming Surveillance states?

>If there are encryption keys then those encryption keys have to be put at the disposal of the authorities.

Yeah Nuh Fuckhead, I'll just keep using my own keys.

>Terrorists could write their own encryption software or migrate to apps that were based in out-of-reach jurisdictions.

FOSS Illegal when? When will I be classed as a terrorist for contributing to and hosting FOSS software…

Please note these government pork-chops use Wickr to communicate and prevent the public from seeing what they says via "Freedom of Information" requests.

>Privacy for me, but not for thee.

As the title says, by Nov. 1 "all software and websites related to circumventing internet filtering in Russia, including VPN software, anonymizers, and instructions on how to circumvent government website blocking" will be derezzed. On 2018 "companies registered in Russia as "organizers of information dissemination", such as online messaging applications, will not be permitted to allow unidentified users".
Severs and ISP providers have this soykaf installed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM
Censorship is getting worse year by year, all the data is accessible without court orders
>recent amendments to the Communications Ministry's “Information Society” program aim to have 99 percent of Russian Internet traffic transferred to within the country's borders by 2020
Any russian here? What will these laws bring? What can we do to help people there?
I think a mesh network is pretty doable in Moscow.

Just throwing it out there. Maybe you already know. But figured I should broadcast.

Humble Bundle currently have a Wiley cybersecurity book bundle. 4 days left.

Read the title. Does one exist? If one does, can we build one? Do you agree that it would be the ideal anti-establishment solution for the cyberrebels of the near future?

It seems like we are on the crux of a big change in the paradigm of computing; namely distribution is in vogue again. We have so many new technologies trying to be foundational infrastructure for the future, and I'm beginning to wonder what it will look like when/if these technologies mature. To name a few of the things I'm talking about there's cryptocurrencies/blockchain technology, ipfs, matrix, and urbit (to ignore all the decentralized social media platforms that have sprung up). These technologies all tackle different use cases, but all of them promote decentralization, open source, and user responsibility of data, in regards to both security and privacy. I'm not even taking into account other recent trends of AI research, the internet of things, biohacking or "actual" cyber-security, but thats an entirely different ball game.
My question is what happens when/if these technologies get main stream adoption. when we all have urbit accounts across all our devices to identify ourselves, communicate easily and securely over matrix, publish with ipfs and trade with cryptos? what impact will they have on society and technology at large, if any at all? id like to believe it will fundamentally change many things about the way we live and interact with technology, but am i just getting caught up in the hype? being somebody that almost exclusively uses open source (or at least tries to), im excited for open source technology to push boundaries that closed source software cant or wont go near, but will it really have any impact?
being cyberpunks we often pride ourselves on our freedom, rationality, curiosity and cooperation, so what does the world look like when these ideas become the norm? do these technologies realistically portray the ideas they say they do?
looking at it today, cryptos are by far the most mature of these technologies and already have caused a 'significant' disruption to fields historically nearly untouched by technology. we've already seen the effects its had in combination with tor and dark net markets, and now its being adopted by things like open bazaar which feature a combination of these technologies; ipfs and cryptos (which i believe also has insane social implications). however cryptos are also fundamentally the most different of the lot, where as the others seem more like pieces of the same puzzle that enable cryptos to increase their impact on society but are not fundamentally things we weren't able to do before (comPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

https://wrenchinthegears.com/2017/07/14/digital-classrooms-as-data-factories/
>Recent “philanthropic” interest in universal pre-kindergarten, early literacy interventions and post-graduation plans (college, career, military or certifications) does not stem from some benevolent impulse. Rather it is about creating opportunities to embed digital frameworks into our education systems that reduce children’s lives to datasets. Once education is simplified as 1s and 0s, global finance will be well-positioned to speculate (gamble) on the future prospects of any given child, school, or district.

>That is what accounts for intrusive preschool assessments like TS Gold and the pressure for middle school students to complete Naviance strengths assessments. Impact investors need baseline data, growth data and “value added” data to assess ROI (return on investment). There are opportunities for profit all along this human-capital value chain. That is why end-of-year testing had to go in favor of constant, formative assessments. That is why they needed to implement VAM (Value Added Measures) and SLOs (Student Learning Objectives). These speculative markets will demand a constant influx of dynamic data. Where is this student, this class, this district compared with where they were projected to be? We need to know. Our bottom line depends on it.
Why are people not rioting against this? Is this really the future of education we want?

Here is a .svg of the hyperface camo. I apologize this was the first time I tried something like this and I maybe screwing it up. If I did any points would be great.
This is a link to the original thread .org/sec/res/246.html

If anyone else has some ideas please share. soykaf is scary.
Here is some spooky stuff. If you are not familiar with this video it is sort of depressing how bad it is but we can not get mopey like a bunch of cunts. Defcon: Privacy's Dead. https://youtu.be/_kBlH-DQsEg

this whole Net Neutrality thing is really pissing me off and honestly if anything happens to it I think I might actually kill myself.
The INTERNET is the only place where I feel like I can truly be myself for it to be taken away from is, is to be taking my sanctuary from me.
No one quite understands me like this computer does.
If anyone has any idea of what to do if this nightmare becomes a reality is there any browser I can use to protect me and others who feel the same from this fate?
Tor can work right?

Should political power be invest into machines, do Humans deserve to make there own decision's after Mankind's long history of bloody war, persecution, genocide and exploitation of others?

Should the world we pass onto future generations be left to the whims of the individual or a A.I?

Aren't are own current governments noting more then a system of bureaucratic procures , checks and balances i.e a legal-political machine, our control over society is all ready a illusion, so why don't we just get rid of the illusion and let A.I's do the work?