[Cryptography] A humble recommendation

[Ismail Kizir]

>Anyone who voluntarily uses a device whose inherent function requires continuous connectivity has no, repeat no, reasonable expectation of not being tracked.
>>I'll bite.
>>A human brain.
...
>>Oh wait -- these have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
>>Let the Nuremburg Trials re-commence.

For a long time, I have been following the discussions on the list.
I have a political sciences education, which makes it more interesting for me.
In my personal opinion, we are living one of the rare moments, the
great constitution of founding fathers is not enough!

European constitutions(except U.K, which is also a Anglo-Saxon
country) are usually very vey long constitutional texts. And we
criticize this very much.

As students, we were telling to our professors that we love short
constitutions. And they were replying: "Everybody loves short
constituions. But it has a potential danger: Juristocracy. Short
constitutions need to be 'interpreted' by the 'judges' and/or by the
administrators, and, in case they have bad intentions, the character of
the regime may change to oligarchy".

This is one of the rare moments of having a long constitution is better:
For example, 22th article of Turkish
Constitution(https://global.tbmm.gov.tr/docs/constitution_en.pdf)
simply tells:"Everyone has the freedom of communication. Privacy of
communication is fundamental....". The judges has still very strong
rights, but limited!

Unfortunately, the actual American political system can't be
identified as a democracy. And it's very far from Founding Fathers's
ideals.

It's simply an oligarchy.

Bi-partist system, which doesn't give any hope to "really" change
anything(proof: Low turnout rates for national elections)
Elitism ...
Networks(free-masons, clubs, regional networks, ethnic networks etc.)
A governmental system which "destroys the citizen against the government"

I humbly want to recommend to everybody in this group, to read Wright
Mills's extraordinary book called "Power Elite".

This book, is the "masterpiece" of political science studies in the
domain of "elite theory". It's an academic book, but, everybody
interested in politics can easily read and understand it. You will
feel like reading
a very high quality novel. It's about United States!

I gave my graduate thesis on "political elites". Mills's "work" is so
good that, I decided to not to become an academician, because, I have
nothing to tell more than he told on that book. It gives examples from
his own country, United States, of 1950's, but he's really telling us
Turkey of 2016 :)

In Europe, American Intellectualism is usually underestimated due to
its pragmatist characteristics and lack of theoretical background.
But I know very well that there are very good American intellectuals
with theoretical background(as Wright Mills).
And this list refreshes my hopes for American intellectualism.

And again, my humble opinion as a political scientist is that, United
States needs "theoretical intellectual discussions about its political
system and personal freedoms"! And only intellectual can do it. It's
very important, because the rest of the world also depends on it.

Thank you
Ismail Kizir