evildoers

Whether a society is Orwellian or not, is not measured by how easy it is to catch evildoers.

The fact that it's all levelled against low-wage minority journalists & developers instead of wealthy evildoers is just bewildering.

He wants to be seen as a god with the power to smite evildoers, which requires being known to exist.

Sure, there is a tendency to blame parents of evildoers, but that is fallacy of the accuser, not the parents.

And how do you want to secure people from random evildoers utilizing such weapons?

The US has a fetish for punishing evildoers for their wickedness.

That they're just all evildoers who change stuff for no reason.

It's enough for these people that these systems could hide evildoing, and because of that they clearly need to be compromised so that the state and legitimate community forces can hunt evildoers.

I don't understand the passage I quoted to be sarcasm; he's advocating that iPhones have a backdoor under the justification that it would help the government prosecute evildoers.

Yes, because giving up privacy and anonymity will only marginally slow down (if at all) the would be evildoers, at least those smart enough to not brag about their evil doings in Facebook.

I would imagine here in the UK our politicians will use this narrative: * Evildoers aren't born knowing how to use tor and having all the right onion urls memorised.

It seems like the defense of the leaked emails essentially comes down to this: the data would be manipulated by evildoers therefore the only people who can be trusted to interpret and even hold the data are some select group of scientists.

Well, it would be manipulated by "evildoers".

You only have the choice between accepting it as a fact of life and trying to work with it (viral marketing, commercial support for Free software, live concerts, etc etc), or ignoring the social costs of your actions and trying to punish all the "evildoers" one-by-one making examples of the students and grandmas you actually manage to draw into courtrooms.

But if you wish me to repeat it, here it is: You wrote: "What I'm disputing is the idea in this essay that the industrial economy is somehow a bunch of evildoers polluting in order to get super rich and then light cigars with 1000 bills, unrelated to the rest of us.