Re: [projectvrm] "The Revolution Will Not Be Monetized"

[Alan Mitchell < >]

Hi Don,

You said:

"Unfortuntely, IMHO it's going to be easier for

large-scale services to de-creepify than for
non-creepy services to scale."

That's a very big and important statement.

Can you expand?

A

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Don Marti < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Betting on that online privacy that the conventional
wisdom keeps telling us that people don't want...

  "For years, the internet's biggest players
  have hoarded your personal data and sold it for
  billions. Now, a band of angry startups is demanding
  privacy and aiming to overhaul the social-media
  business forever."

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201407/ceo-of-wickr-leads-social-media-resistance-movement.html

  "She started Wickr to give her daughters a tool that
  would allow them to communicate safely, anonymously,
  with the capacity to control what information is
  retained on the other end."

(Unfortuntely, IMHO it's going to be easier for
large-scale services to de-creepify than for
non-creepy services to scale.)

Bonus link: Arvind Narayanan, "Encryption as protest"
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/encryption-as-protest/

  "In this post, I want to examine the hypothesis
  that users of encryption tools also have protest
  and civil disobedience in mind, instead of (or in
  addition to) self-defense and anonymity."

--
Don Marti
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
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