Just empty your to read list and read Thomas Sowell.

A guy at work wants me to read notes form underground, the Marxist discord wants me to read anti Oedipus

Then I finally have someone to talk to.

that goes for both hard and software

@Redneo not "forced" sometimes its from government subsidizing them to do so, others its china.

the NSA wants backdoors in everything

Indeed

All of my hardware has become software with growing age.

the absolute free market its literally anarchism and that shit doesnt work

for "counter-terrorism"

@Strufa what do you mean "doesnt work"?

I mean sweet shit Australia banned all forms of encryption

>inb4 "Read Marx"

at achieving WHAT exactly?

a society that dont suck?

@EndangeredProdigy I don't think it's quite like that

@stedly when was marx an ancap?

It's not an absolute free market, because it's not a market at all if there are no rules.

literally what communism falied to do many times

Lots of Australian laws are poorly understood outside of Australia

@Undead Mockingbird i agree

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/281991-australia-becomes-first-western-nation-to-ban-secure-encryption @BlueAndBlack

Freedom does not mean I club someone over the head.

@EndangeredProdigy its been banned in the US for a long time

We can look at tiny titty porn, but if we're accused of a sexual crime it's legally permissible as evidence

thats why truecrypt was shut down only for development to continue in switzerland

Two people not clubbing each other over the head but engaging of free will is a state of more freedom than one taking the liberty to coerce another.

@Redneo lol does it deem a response though. I guess one can actually argue that Karl Marx is in fact the first AnCap.

it's not fully banned in the US, it's requested that there are backdoors

but Australia took it a step further

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_qwo2VIlU

EXTRME TECH!

If in doubt, always quote Friedman.

@EndangeredProdigy well if there are backdoors its not secure now, is it?

no, but not all tech has a backdoor

i guess

some devs refuse to do that

Actually, what's banned (IIRC) is not being able to give up your keys if there's a warrant for them

how much are we willing to give up in privacy in order to be secure?

im in the side of "Not much"

"to be secure"