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   From: 26yh.0713@e6t5y.net   
      
   https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-mulls-monitoring-   
   etadata-for-pre-emptive-cyberattack-defenses   
      
   The Japanese government is considering allowing the peacetime   
   monitoring of private metadata in a way that does not directly   
   identify individuals, in a bid to bolster its pre-emptive   
   cyberattack defenses, government sources said Sunday.   
      
   Data such as messages themselves, in principle, will not be   
   subject to monitoring, amid concerns that the plans to   
   strengthen surveillance against potential cyberattacks could   
   infringe on privacy, the sources said.   
      
   Japan's Constitution forbids the violation of the secrecy   
   of any means of communication.   
      
   Instead, the government would allow, during normal times,   
   surveillance of changes to information such as amounts   
   of metadata -- accompanying data such as a message's   
   size or the date it was sent -- and IP addresses that   
   identify devices on networks.   
      
   . . .   
      
      Oh, none of THAT could possibly be abused for   
      totalitarian ends .......   
      
      The basic message here (and across the US/EU as   
      well) is that the only way to have freedom is to   
      surrender all freedom.   
      
      What was the old phrase from the Vietnam war - "We   
      had to destroy the village in order to save it" ?   
      
      Now, sad and scary thing is, the spooky people may   
      not be entirely wrong. The overall "online-everything"   
      environment HAS become almost totally insecure and   
      eagerly exploited by bad actors private and state.   
      The rise of "AI" makes it all even WORSE, FAST.   
      
      Hate to say it, but it soon may be necessary to   
      pretty much turn off the Net. Great idea - but   
      too great a threat now on every level. Does your   
      banker/broker/whatever-provider even know you   
      face, your habits, your personality, *you* ?   
      For many that answer is "No" - which makes it   
      SO much easier for scammers and worse.   
      
      Being an old fart, I'm pretty much still a   
      paper-in-person sort of guy - I actually   
      bank AT the bank, anyone involved in my   
      financial/legal/whatever affairs actually   
      SEE me. I don't have online banking or   
      even online CCard access and have a freakin   
      flip phone. As such I'm largely 'off-the-grid'   
      so to speak in the modern context. It is   
      "less convenient"  but a lot safer. Ink and   
      paper are hard to beat (but DO use wash-resistant   
      ink eh - UniBall 207 is pretty good).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)