
1a. to me privacy is about *control* and *choice*
- in the face of data breaches, of companies intentionally misusing data,
of *governments* misusing data, yes of course i think there's a role
for tools that help users choose where their data goes.

1b.
- slippery slope, you install your censorship tool because of some key
issue, pirate bay, the children, whatever, and then each day you are faced
with some new political issue, you already paid all the fees for the whole
dashboard, eventually you click another checkbox to censor a new category.
- i deal a lot with situations where activists are put at risk because of
censorship and surveillance by authoritarian governments. these countries
also started out their censorship in this same way, they've just slipped
a bit further down the slope. when your democratic govt spreads fear
about end-to-end encryption, or deploys its own censorship infrastructure,
it supports the decisions of these other govts.

2. (supply chain risk)
- tools designed for one legal framework being used in another
- dubai telecom example from the german foreign ministry meeting,
  with the lawful intercept port
- similar stories with changing deployment conditions with pegasus,
  nso group, mini arms dealers

3. (internal politics, why cybersecurity worthwhile)
- If you add encryption (security) to your tool so your users are safer
and don't have the data either, you're doing what the users want and
also protecting yourself. You can't have a data breach if you don't have
the data.
- More generally, it's about information architecture. In a centralized
design, you're all set for building your huge data set and harming society
- whereas with a decentralized information flow, you put control back in
the hands of the users, where they don't have to trust you as much.
- for Tor it's about power imbalances

4. (artificial intelligence)
- "arguing that such legislation could drive investment and innovation offshore"
  the whole surveillance capitalism business model is harming society
  maybe it's ok to let some harmful things pass you by?

- want more? ask-me-anything tomorrow at lunch, and keynote tomorrow end day

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Technology inherently political
  for Tor it's about power imbalances
  if you don't consider political impact, you will reinforce existing power

*trust*, comes from architecture, decentralized vs centralized
  breaches, lost data sets from centralized business models

surveillance tools built by capitalism
  censorship implies surveillance
    so to us it's about *safety*
  pegasus, nso group, mini arms dealers
  censorship in australia undermines foreign policy goals

related to e2e encryption debate
  should we empower citizens to control their own data?
  or do we make *everybody* less safe?
  apple facebook on our side, huh
  fbi backdoor example

Meet-and-greet tshirt session / keynote tomorrow

Tor's history, including funding

UN Human Rights Report about Tor. NSA summary about Tor.
Law enforcement / militaries use and rely on Tor.

"You can put a man on the moon, so surely you can put a man on the sun!"
"Well sure, maybe you trust the people in power now... but what if the
people in power change?"

