[Cryptography] Angry Cryptographers...

[Stephen Williams]

On 1/28/14, 1:14 PM, RB wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This latest NSA atrocity is the last straw.
>> http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-angry-birds-nsa-british-spy-surveillance-20140127,0,4194888.story#axzz2riz3A5TH
> While I realize the subject is a play on the application of note in
> the article, your words would appear to indicate it means something
> for you personally as well.
>
> "The last straw", a reference to the story of the straw that broke the
> camel's back, often used as a modern English euphemism for "now I am
> angry."  In the parochial words of an average bully, "what are you
> going to do about it?"  Americans like to get angry about things now
> and again, but rarely do more than grumble.  Grumble publicly if it

Depends on the definition of 'rarely' I suppose.  There's a big 
difference between rarely and never.
One could point to a wide range of political (Tea Party, MoveOn, Occupy, 
etc.), technological (browsers and much of the Internet, Amazon, 
Google/Android, Apple, PGP, etc.), educational (Kahn, MOOCs, etc.), and 
other areas where someone has done a little more than grumble to 
transform the world.  Where someone is often American, complemented by 
EU, Canadian, Austrailian, Japanese/Chinese/Indian, and a smattering of 
others.

There are all kinds of possibilities for action, depending on your 
goals.  How would you characterize those goals?

> really has their knickers in a knot, and they might even write a
> sternly-worded email to their "representatives" if they feel near
> blood.  I am as guilty as any, ensconced in my warm office using
> services provided by one of the very companies that gathers such
> volumes of data.
>
> Do we see the problem yet?  Do we care?

sdw