National security can largely kiss my ass.
For the most part, “national security” is the security of the State, and is largely unrelated to the security of the people who live in that State. Since we’re all speaking English here, it’s safe to assume that the States we’re talking about are capitalist ones, so “national security” is for the most part the security of the oligarchs of the State in question.
A closely related term is “national interest,” which for the most part is a euphemism for the interests of the country’s billionaires.
For my fellow Americans, here are two concrete examples of what I mean:
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Those two holes in the middle of New York City are blowback from our national interests in West Asia in the later half of the last century. National interests and national security are not our interests or our security.
Get a real fucking search warrant. No blanket warrants, no rubber stamps.
I don't subscribe to the idea that national security and privacy are mutually exclusive. I think its a load of horseshit used to get people to give up their privacy willingly.
Law enforcement and governments have more then enough weapons and tech to do their job without trampling on privacy.
I have been pondering this as of late and as i am new to the privacy space I only have recently learnt of my countries ant-encryptions laws (Australia). See i like the idea of national security and sure i have nothing to hide but it is a matter of principle why is MY data not mine? And if my governments is allowed to see all of my files and internet history that scares me sure they are not to tyrannical now but what happens if that changes this is the first step to then begin to be way more intrusive and it gets all 1984 up in here with thought police.
You can have my data if you can find and crack the encryption.
Backdoors are never a good idea because social engineering is a thing and the backdoors can be reverse engineered. A good enough looking phishing website sent to enough government email addresses gets you the backdoor login
They are generally mutually beneficial. Counter surveillance benefits from supporting privacy prevents malicious actors from exploiting the members of a nation. So I lean heavily towards supporting privacy as a matter of supporting both. The exceptions are in the true extremes in which, even after serious deliberation in a democratically agreed apon system, the demand for exposure is too high to ignore.
