Meredith Whittaker

of what this tech did and calling that out. And I feel like when I entered into this kind of privacy security hacker development scene, There was a lot of that skepticism there around Google. That educated me a lot. There was a lot of skepticism around surveillance. I immediately recognized, yes, we need privacy because it doesn't matter if these people are good or benevolent.

What we're doing is setting up an infrastructure that could be turned over at any moment to another regime. Logically, all of that made sense. But I don't feel that until the Snowden revelations, any of that was anywhere near in the nervous system of a kind of tech consciousness.

What we're doing is setting up an infrastructure that could be turned over at any moment to another regime. Logically, all of that made sense. But I don't feel that until the Snowden revelations, any of that was anywhere near in the nervous system of a kind of tech consciousness.

What we're doing is setting up an infrastructure that could be turned over at any moment to another regime. Logically, all of that made sense. But I don't feel that until the Snowden revelations, any of that was anywhere near in the nervous system of a kind of tech consciousness.

And a lot of the work I spent, I have spent in the 1990s trying to get, you know, sift through the crypto wars and sift through, you know, what happened with, you know, tech regulation to set up these surveillance giants and to permit this monopoly platform business model.

And a lot of the work I spent, I have spent in the 1990s trying to get, you know, sift through the crypto wars and sift through, you know, what happened with, you know, tech regulation to set up these surveillance giants and to permit this monopoly platform business model.

And a lot of the work I spent, I have spent in the 1990s trying to get, you know, sift through the crypto wars and sift through, you know, what happened with, you know, tech regulation to set up these surveillance giants and to permit this monopoly platform business model.

has kind of looked at that gap between the rhetoric of like, you know, liberal rights preserving, you know, open free tech, and what was actually being built, right. And one of the things if you look at there's a there's a scholar named Katarina Reiter, who who I would really suggest I can, for show notes, I can send some of these links.

has kind of looked at that gap between the rhetoric of like, you know, liberal rights preserving, you know, open free tech, and what was actually being built, right. And one of the things if you look at there's a there's a scholar named Katarina Reiter, who who I would really suggest I can, for show notes, I can send some of these links.

has kind of looked at that gap between the rhetoric of like, you know, liberal rights preserving, you know, open free tech, and what was actually being built, right. And one of the things if you look at there's a there's a scholar named Katarina Reiter, who who I would really suggest I can, for show notes, I can send some of these links.

But she did her dissertation looking at, you know, some of the negotiations in the crypto wars. And what you begin to see is that, yeah, we, you know, and this is a thesis sort of I build on top of in some of my work. Yeah, we won liberalized encryption, right? By 1999, in the US, it was

But she did her dissertation looking at, you know, some of the negotiations in the crypto wars. And what you begin to see is that, yeah, we, you know, and this is a thesis sort of I build on top of in some of my work. Yeah, we won liberalized encryption, right? By 1999, in the US, it was

But she did her dissertation looking at, you know, some of the negotiations in the crypto wars. And what you begin to see is that, yeah, we, you know, and this is a thesis sort of I build on top of in some of my work. Yeah, we won liberalized encryption, right? By 1999, in the US, it was

Finally legal to build, share, implement strong crypto systems without approval from the government, without some threshold that made them useless. Right. But the agreement there was basically, yeah, you can have encryption, but we're going to permit mass surveillance by companies.

Finally legal to build, share, implement strong crypto systems without approval from the government, without some threshold that made them useless. Right. But the agreement there was basically, yeah, you can have encryption, but we're going to permit mass surveillance by companies.

Finally legal to build, share, implement strong crypto systems without approval from the government, without some threshold that made them useless. Right. But the agreement there was basically, yeah, you can have encryption, but we're going to permit mass surveillance by companies.

And so you don't actually... You can just get the... We're going to permit... We're going to endorse the advertising business model. We're going to endorse... And I can actually... I can start this point over, actually.

And so you don't actually... You can just get the... We're going to permit... We're going to endorse the advertising business model. We're going to endorse... And I can actually... I can start this point over, actually.

And so you don't actually... You can just get the... We're going to permit... We're going to endorse the advertising business model. We're going to endorse... And I can actually... I can start this point over, actually.

I, you know, I can't say that there was a conspiracy. What I can say is that Katarina's work shows that, you know, there was clear, like, Microsoft saying, like, liberalize encryption. Don't worry. We're not going to encrypt all the data. We need it, right? You know, just come to us, you know, quietly, and we'll give it to you.