From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The importance of secrecy
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:45:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2o9i85qxf.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1sf4cx5u.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:57:15 -0400")
>>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
SM> BTW, I think using "porn" as a humorous justification for secrecy is
SM> detrimental since it promotes the view that secrecy is only used for
SM> objectionable activities, along the lines of "I don't need secrecy because
SM> I have nothing to hide".
Indeed. As someone whose wife's friends in Iran are actually being imprisoned
on religious groups, the ability to promote education and other activities
deemed "subversive" by the current regime depends entirely on one's ability to
maintain private communications. This is what I think about when these issues
come up.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-24 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-16 10:26 EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-16 10:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 11:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-16 12:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 12:22 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-16 12:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 12:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-17 11:18 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-04-17 19:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-24 5:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-24 14:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-24 17:57 ` The importance of secrecy (was: EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, ...) Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 19:45 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2018-04-24 20:16 ` Joost Kremers
2018-04-24 20:53 ` The importance of secrecy Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 22:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-24 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 15:58 ` EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, T.V Raman
2018-04-25 6:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 15:25 ` T.V Raman
2018-04-25 16:25 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 23:36 ` T.V Raman
2018-04-26 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-25 7:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 12:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-25 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-03 6:52 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 6:54 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-24 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-25 6:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-25 16:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-17 19:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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