On this day 150 years ago William Sealy Gosset was born. He spent his whole career as a brewer at Guinness, working on a problem the textbooks ignored: how to draw conclusions from tiny samples, like four plots of barley or a handful of hops. The statistics of the day assumed large samples so Gosset invented the statistics of small ones.
Guinness barred its employees from publishing after one of them leaked trade secrets, and did not want competitors knowing it used science to brew beer so when Gosset published his method in 1908 he signed it with a pseudonym: Student.
Every clinical trial, lab experiment and A/B test that runs a t-test today is using the work of Student. The most famous name in statistics is a fake one.
This is what the UK spyware proposal means.
There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.
When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).
The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.
Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.
Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.
The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.
The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.
@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
https://t.co/rbRmcUDTRu
Statement from @signalapp
https://t.co/vJILcSrs4s
@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
https://t.co/3FCi06bP77
The government announcement:
https://t.co/ynYjR3DIRo
Pra eles sigilo absoluto acima da lei, pra nós rastreamento total, verificação de ID, roubo de aposentadoria, cruzamento e vazamento de dados. 🤡
Até quando?
Alugaram um apartamento na minha cabeça quando falaram que o Não Intendo estava parado em 2010 e que esse tipo de conteúdo não tinha mais espaço hoje em dia.
Foi por isso que eu resolvi descobrir que tipo de conteúdo os jovens estão consumindo atualmente:
Diz um ditado:
"A liberdade não se perde de uma vez, mas em fatias, como se corta um salame."
Há tempos que não se fazem mais ditaduras como antigamente, com tanques de guerra invadindo congresso feito os sonhos molhados do pessoal que acreditava que ia ser "A resistência" ao quarto Reich Bolsonarista.
A Cuba de Fidel ou o Brasil de Castelo Branco não se repetirão. A ditadura do século XXI, como a Venezuela de Maduro, nasce aos poucos, gradualmente...às vezes ao longo de décadas. Com o poder público cometendo um pequeno abuso de cada vez.
Cada vez que a gente abre mão de um pedacinho de liberdade sob pretextos como "é pra proteger as criancinhas" ou "é pra combater os nazistas" (ou comunistas) ou "é pra proteger a democracia", estamos entregando mais uma fatia do salame na mão dos poderosos.
Cedo ou tarde, a gente acaba percebendo que entregou demais.
Tomara que não seja tarde.