I've heard LII recently but don't find it particularly convincing. Tech (intel) fields I'm always thinking Te> Ti; He is very calm and collected in the manner of speech, unlike LII imo.
What do you suggest? He talks about specifics, about concrete risks etc - rather not so abstract imo. At one point he said 'you focus on only one thing, and that's the mission', rather strategy may...be...? And at one point he implies his safety is not his #1 priority and that he's comfortable with the costs of his decisions.
This is the video @wacey shared with me that made me wonder:
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Quotes by Edward Snowden:
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
― Edward Snowden
The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing for a man in my position: I decided to tell the truth.
― Edward Snowden
Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively *are* less free.
― Edward Snowden
Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation.
They're about power.
The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe into that domain of personal or individual freedoms that during the American Revolution was called “liberty” and during the Internet Revolution is called “privacy.
The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government.
I was reminded of what is perhaps the fundamental rule of technological progress: if something can be done, it probably will be done, and possibly already has been.
In the 1990s, the Internet had yet to fall victim to the greatest iniquity in digital history: the move by both government and businesses to link, as intimately as possible, users’ online personas to their offline legal identity.
Technology doesn’t have a Hippocratic oath. So many decisions that have been made by technologists in academia, industry, the military, and government since at least the Industrial Revolution have been made on the basis of “can we,” not “should we.” And the intention driving a technology’s invention rarely, if ever, limits its application and use.”