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by calvinmorrison 1437 days ago
Depends on your threat model. I don't include state actors in mine, they can employ $5 hammers just as easily as crypto breakers
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Govt can’t use $5 hammers on 330 million people at once as they can with data collection.
This is a common false dichotomy. Border agents and random highway stops are done by state actors. Vanishingly small slice of them are james bond-esque high stakes games.
you’re fine with state actors being able to precisely target propaganda / inciting calls to violence based on psychological profiles etc, including your neighbors
Not that they are fine, probably they just have no avenue to defend against that. It would be like an ant declaring war on the elephant.
Or maybe like a nest of hornets declaring war on a person
individual vs collective action
state actors are much more prescient than that. From every tail light ticket to rain water collection law, the state bears every law on the threat of murder. That's the price for the social contract.