I think this is a thing in certain industries. Game development for instance; I feel like the more money a publisher has, the worse the result, and I would argue that one of the factors is an increase in corporate types. There hasnt been so much the implosion of those companies yet, but id wager in the next 5-10 years they will have to majorly trim down or perish.
The corporate influence is too constricting for creative works. I imagine there are many businesses where MBAs make sense, and that any large company needs them.
Why is there such a pervasive crowd of people who chock this kind of thing up to a lost cause? From my prespective, if it can be done, we should, we must, do it. Is there something special about hiding something from a government thats qualitatively different than hiding it from any other criminal? That they can levy greater amounts of violence? Isnt that even greater justification to privacy?
We don’t insult each other here. Take the cheap potshots to Reddit.
>Why worry about nation-state level attacks when you can simply be hit over the head with a mallet until you give up your password?
Yes, that would be the point of obfuscation, as opposed to just encryption. End to end encryption does not prevent the $5 wrench attack, obfuscation does.
Oh, I agree completely with everything in the top paragraph, and I certainly have seen a natural trend towards central nodes/relays in all the federated networks I can think of. I think the appeal is that for the average user its about as good security as anything else available, and it has the option to work off the centralized network.
Even encrypted data is not irrelevant. The frequency of messages is relevant, as is how many messages are sent how quickly, the total package size can be revealing if they arent hella padding the data, there is a lot you can learn just from the data. Total obfuscation is ideal.
The corporate influence is too constricting for creative works. I imagine there are many businesses where MBAs make sense, and that any large company needs them.