Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://witter.cz/@vonxylofon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vonxylofon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/@CCC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CCC</span></a></span> </p><p>Taking the Taliban as example is completely ridiculous, as those are a clear case of warlordism and thus should not be considered acting in <em>due process</em>...</p><p>It's not about <em>non-conformism</em>, but rather exercising self- and mutual defense and that includes refusing to normalize <em>proven to be insecure</em> and <em>post-privacy</em> bs like fingerprint-based authentification.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhatYouAllowIsWhatWillContinue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatYouAllowIsWhatWillContinue</span></a> applies with all <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> and the only winning move is not to endorse, use or even respect such <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SurveillanceTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceTech</span></a>. </p><p>Because it's not about the <em>now</em> but the fact that we allow <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Cyberfacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cyberfacists</span></a> to make politricks and laws.</p><p><em>Your</em> right to be able to effectively <em>refuse to self-incriminate</em> may not be of concern for you or your immediate friends and family but it'll protect other peoples' lives - including outside your juristiction.</p><p>Just imagine if down the line we'll get <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GAFAMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAFAMs</span></a> to abolish any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/login" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>login</span></a> but <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/fingerprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fingerprint</span></a> sensors or someones' face on their devices and then just take some underground folks in dictatorships like Russia, "P.R." China or North Korea and then tell me with a straight face that you don't believe shite like that <em>can't and won't happen in the West</em> because it already did happen and if you can't remember then maybe you should repeat history classes from 1930 onwards...</p><p>We as <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechLiterates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechLiterates</span></a> have a social obligation to protect <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechIlliterates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechIlliterates</span></a> by going out of our way to push back against the dragging of the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OvertonWindow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OvertonWindow</span></a> into a really nasty, Orwellian corner.</p><p>So no, if you think I am the problem then please GTFO.</p>