As the title says I live in a surveillance state where among other things the government uses paid snitches, listening devices in your home, installs Trojans/malware in your phone and computer, even outside agents can stalk and observe you 7/24.

I may not be a target of any of this as I am didn’t commit any of the crimes required to do these (for example being involved with cannabis, or helping illegal aliens or some crimes that actually warrant this like organized crime and so forth)

However with the snitch system were convicted criminals are incentivized to incriminate others to save their own skin I am not put at ease with assurances that if you have nothing to hide that you would have nothing to fear.

I do not believe however that the surveillance state is intended to prevent terrorism or organized crime. I believe the true intention of the surveillance state is to consolidate power and nip any sort of true dissent in the bud.

So in imho if you were to call out the government on their bullshit you would stand to be victimized. Even if you are well within your rights with regards to freedom of speech/thought/assembly.

So if everything on your computer may be subject to government’s prying eyes, you’d need your own language and alphabet/writing system to at least retain the ability to keep notes and write a diary.

I would like to be able to note down my thoughts without having to fear the government can read it.

I was thinking of something like Tolkiens Elven tongue/language. I know it is a lot of work especially since it is only for internal use.

What’s your opinion on this?

    • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I fail to see your point. Of course it is not merely “encrypting your shit.” But a constructed language is more dangerous than using existing crypto. It is subject to frequency analysis and many other analyses. And aside from the point of “if you can memorize it’s flawed,” you might as well just use a one time pad at that point. Generally, if you are not a cryptographer and you design a cipher, that cipher will be flawed. The human element of being suspicious of a surveillance state is certainly valid, and you are right, it is not something I generally worry about on a daily basis, mostly because I am not presently engaged in any such high risk activities. I am saying nothing about this not changing and never becoming something to worry about, but you bet your ass I will be employing cryptography designed by experts if that day comes.

      And anyway, all my webservers are https, I am an avid user of gpg, and I’ve been working in “cybersecurity” for over a decade now, so I like to think my opsec isn’t total garbage. After all the Snowden stuff came out, it just reinforced my existing practices and birthed new ones. Also, wireguard is the shit.