Cryptography vs. Big Brother: How Math Became a Weapon Against Tyranny

[@TheMichaelMove]

As a former government employee I can tell you the one great advantage the private economy has. The other side just isn’t that smart.

[@econogate]

Thats why they are using private contractors now in order to get around those govt rules.

[@TTM77]

@Roberts Fawkes hire private contractors to build a better trap for private contractors?

[@TheMichaelMove]

@Roberts Fawkes Yes. Remove the regulation and you remove the collusion.

[@TheMichaelMove]

@@TTM77 I’m optimistic. Government contractors soon become as dumb as their bosses.

[@jgrtrx]

Exactly. The best example I know of is high-frequency trading quants versus the SEC :) Even the IRS has more sophisticated methods than the SEC.

[@chris52000]

This series is making me want to specialize in cryptography (undergrad CS student)

[@neestovekin8251]

Go for it :)

[@MR-nl8xr]

is it hard???

[@gilfoyle2211]

@@MR-nl8xr that's what she asked

[@yomanos]

What a phenomenal video. Keep 'em coming, Reason!

[@Berelore]

Look, I'm not annoyed that I have to wait for each part, but I'm annoyed that I have to wait for each part.

[@rn7371]

Yes, I have often looked for book series that are complete because I hate having to wait.

[@sanjacobs6261]

I'm more annoyed that only the first episode is numbered

[@ttkddry]

See part 3 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqebgHmJjL-efdU When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software

[@pcfreakx]

If I ever had the chance to shake hands with Whitfield Diffie I'd have to ask if he could guess what number I'm thinking first. I'll bet he NEVER gets tired of that joke. Srsly, the guy's a legend. The narrator is lucky to get to meet him.

[@testriot]

Another excellent episode. Keep up the good work Jim!

[@jennifersignsoflife1375]

Just last night the History Channel ran an episode in their series of "America Book of Secrets", and EDWARD SN0WDEN, as well as Mark Dice & all the books he's authored on this subject were featured on this topic were covered. GREAT STUFF.

[@cesaraugustorodrigue]

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[@JCG0001]

In the past I would have thought, I have nothing to hide, but the way this government is going I am rethinking that.

[@InfobytesTV]

Great work

[@scottfranco1962]

A little too short. The next chapter is being written, which is the introduction of quantum computers that can break RSA and other codes. These will be breathtakingly expensive, which means that governments will be the first ones with the ability to break the codes, and likely we won't know they are being broken. These things are always an arms race.

[@MR-nl8xr]

Sounds like its waaaay overdue we change how the government can afford these breathtaking expenses. If have the population would stop paying their taxes but some how still keep working, the whole system would fall apart. the day that would happen, since the numbers would be too large for local law enforcement, the military would step in, and war would follow. All Im saying is, STOP PAYING THE GOVERNMENT so they cant afford to build these machines that will end up making us live stock.

[@vtheman1850]

Unfortunately we may be going the complete terror route with this in the near future. With how quantum computers, and generally quantum cryptography works, we may end up having all of our data completely at the mercy of the Key holder, usually the ISP/Government.

[@jcpatrick4824]

Do a little research into Cloud Coin they recently received a patent and the platform technology build is quantum safe...... As well as many other areas of friction etc. SOLVED -a quite exciting project you'll be hearing a lot more about shortly

[@jcpatrick4824]

@@josephvanname3377excellent

[@ender2034]

There are quantum safe encryption algorithms. They arent as mature (or keysize efficient) as the contemporary ones but they are mathematically proven to work (or proven to work given an assumption such as one-way hash functions existing) or at least assumed to be after extensive research. Examples are SIDH, UOV based aproaches such as Rainbow, hash based crypto such as Merkle signature scheme or SPHINCS and a few more.

[@Cdarlosfletch58]

Yes it’s happening as we speak !!

[@stevegallant3395]

Recently I started learning about quantum computers. Eventually these computers will be available to the General Public. Is it true quantum computers will be able to decipher encryption code and get into blockchain?

[@rodytrillanes6395]

Yeah thats true but when that happens blockchain is in the quantum mode too

[@rodytrillanes6395]

or quantum resistance blockchain, there is no secret under the sun everything can be learned..

[@ferulebezel]

Now they're trying the clipper chip again.

[@Kanamit.]

*Did somebody say the USA is a country of Freedom? Not!*

[@Graeme_Lastname]

I read that Scientific American story and spent days playing with large primes. :)

[@chrimony]

Gov't: Won't somebody think of the children!? We need Big Brother to listen in to fight against pedophiles and terrorists!

[@c.l.369]

popcorn, no... nachos, ok, drinks, water and juice.. okay let's watch the __ . .. 7:25min clip?! oh :D okay , just watching it quick then :P

[@stackinglittlesats]

That´s very interesting.

[@cameronpoe9331]

Be careful what you tell your smartphone.

[@mattaz2315]

As I digest the second installment, I believe this series will add a whole new understanding of where the pioneering internet would go with conscientious guidance everyone should view with the greatest of intertwined.work but the goal of using cyberspace for the advancement of all mankind shall always be the target role of this great academic medium steered into the right hands as requested by the Almighty God and all the God's progeny.

[@77huss]

Block Chain

[@conorc4594]

cypherpunk - bitcoin whitepaper introduced.

[@chrimony]

Big Corp has become even more tyrannical than Big Brother.

[@Romir0s]

> Math Became a Weapon Against Tyranny > On a channel that support independent religious schools! *Stares in confusion*

[@toxicchannel2478]

Cut the crap! Which one is gonna win? We need move on our lives just fight the fcking fight :)

[@jcpatrick4824]

⭐ Awesome channel - great work 'THANK YOU' for your service fellow Patriots! 🇺🇸WWG1WGA🇺🇸 Gratitude!!!⭐🕊💜🏆

[@radornkeldam]

Sorry, but this is a fantasy. You can't defend yourself against the powers that be wtih the use cryptography in a network that is easily controlled by those same powers. Let's put aside the fact that most people don't really understand cryptography and can't assess it's strenght and legitimacy. They need to be provided with it and have to trust whatever they get and the opinion of some expert. Does it really work? Is it really impenetrable? Is it compromised? Most encryption comes from organizations with government ties in one way or another anyway. But let's not stop there. What about the Internet itself? Lets assume we DO have perfect impenetrable encryption tech and and the govenrment isn't cool with it. A tyrannycal regime could just coherce the companies that own the networks you connect to so that they won't allow certain types of traffic. There, encryption thwarted. The only solution in such an scenario would be to also built your own network parallel to the Internet.

[@TTM77]

And that network is called vpn. Look it up if you don't know, but claim defeated because of your ignorant is no excuse. Big brother do try and a few did make encryption illegal.... people will still try to live.

[@radornkeldam]

@Mask You need to read the whole thing. You are missing the point entirely. I don't care if they can "crack" encryption or not, or if there's a backdoor or not, or whatever other cryptographic strenght or weakness. My point is they can easily ban encryption from the Internet by forcing the ISPs to comply. Encryption as a defense against tyranny is a pipedream. Encryption can help keeping a status quo of freedom IF you have enough of it (freedom) to begin with. But it can't do that much to help you regain it, realistically speaking. What use do you have for encryption outside the Internet. What other network can you communicate in anyway? And don't come at me with minor things *nobody* uses or knows about. We are talking about the general public here.

[@radornkeldam]

@@TTM77 OK... VPNs... Let's see: A company sets up a bunch of servers and connections to the internet with lots of bandwidth, and resells you that bandwidth so that you can connect to them through an encrypted tunnel, and the traffic comes out of their servers unencrypted. VPN providers are just as likely to be controlled by governments as ISPs are if not more given that they expect people connecting to them to have something they want the government not to see. The VPN provider can see everything you do. You've just added one more player into the game. If you think about it, VPNs are perfect honeypots. Me ignorant... yeah, sure... By the way, "ignorant" is an adjective. In your sentence "because of your ignorant" you should have used "ignorance", which is a noun.

[@michaellowe3665]

If you trust the VPN to do the encryption and decryption for you, then you are at their mercy. To be secure from them, and who may control them, you have to encrypt the message before it goes to the VPN and decipher it after it leaves their custody. I have often wondered if some or all VPNs are actually fronts for the NSA and they just absorb everyone's data as it comes in. By pretending to be a private company they can also take in money and fund other ventures.

[@radornkeldam]

@@michaellowe3665 Well, the problem is that not all endpoints will accept encryption, and even if you limit your online activity to full end-to-end encrypted communications, there's still the metadata problem. Even if they don't know what you are talking about, they know who you are talking to, at what time, how much, how often... etc. Then you say "OK, then use Tor"... well, Tor still uses passageways to the open internet and they can easily monitor those, OR become them and insert themselves in the Tor network. Sure, you can make things a little harder for them, but we live in a world they pretty much own already. It's not that simple. They created computers, they sell them, they have a grip on all aspects of the IT industry in one way or another. Unless you can build your own computers, software, networks, security and control systems and organizations, etc... you are in their hands. Maybe I'm a defeatists, but when I look at all these people talking about how spplying encryption to this infrastructure can turn it upside down, I can't help but to say they are daydreaming.