Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x06: Security II
We talk about major threats to security, mainly focussed on future threats and the reaction from security services. Some keywords are: Nuclear proliferation, robotic warfare, technology regulation, surveillance state, bioterrorism, and omniviolence.
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Show Notes
Section I Future of Security
Introduction: Emotional Reach, Classifying the Population, Keeping the Legitimacy
00:02:16 Crimes that really matter: How do security forces select
the crimes they battle against, which ones are ignored.
00:02:33 Limitations of Crimefighting: War on drugs is ongoing,
street robberies, etc.
00:03:30 State is focussing on crimes that risk itself, and on high
public image.
00:04:30 Public percerption is high when public can identify and
empathize with the victim (child abuse, burglary).
00:05:45 Germany: First case of predictive policing was burglary.
00:07:40 The victim matters / vulnerability: People do react less
with assault of a 20-30 year old man, than with the elderly, women,
or children.
00:09:13 Child porn is the universal crime where everybody gets
behind the police, …and that is used for higher surveillance.
Child pornography is the abdomination of the 21st century.
00:10:15 A lot of murder, a lot of kidnapping, a lot of burglaries
etc, undermindes the belief in the state. Other crimes do not affect
the trust so much, i.e. insurance fraud. Nobody’s sorry about big
corp
