Dad,
“Yeah Ro?”
How exactly does Santa see us, does he look through our cameras?
“No bud, he does not use our cameras.”
Humm ok… but then how does he see us?
“Magic.”
Really… magic, but how does it work, like how does magic work?
“You will have to ask him when you get older.”
I find it unsettling and disingenuous that my engagement with other people makes them money. It’s a conflict of interest that I am having trouble reconciling. Personal social media accounts in general should have nothing to do with monetization.
33 years ago, the NSA with the Clipper Chip tried to make backdoors the standard. Activists, cryptographers, and civil liberties advocates pushed back and won. The lesson still stands: strong encryption must protect users, not undermine them. The threats are the same today. Were