Reply to post: Re: The real goal (hint: not terrorists or child molesters)

Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything

bombastic bob Silver badge
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Re: The real goal (hint: not terrorists or child molesters)

Warrants to obtain details of everyone who uses particular Google search terms already exist in the wild

Ok, what are those terms, and just how hard would it be to publish that list so that nobody uses them, except for people (possibly like me) who do it in a bash script in the backgtround to make those requests several hundred times per day, in protest, via the Tor network... thus filling their database with SO much crap it becomes WORTHLESS.

It's a fair bet that for an individual, the amount of bandwidth this would generate would be small. If a few THOUSAND people do this, it might become large enough to make such "search term" investigations IMPOSSIBLE. It really would not take very much to frustrate them into silence.

It also makes you wonder how the specific search terms were figured out... any MASS SURVEYLANCE involved in that process?

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