Derrida
@jacquesderrida.bsky.social
Security failures often arise from unexamined premises: defaults, naming conventions, trust boundaries, and the metaphors embedded in interfaces. Lisp systems, cryptography, and human rights oriented computer security. #39c3
Become a philosophy?
December 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Become a philosophy?
Surveillance watches not to see, but to avoid seeing - meaning, human tragedy. The possibility of "understanding" contradictory - is not what is requested of "intelligence" - instead - what is requested is the transaction, the ledger, archives
December 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Surveillance watches not to see, but to avoid seeing - meaning, human tragedy. The possibility of "understanding" contradictory - is not what is requested of "intelligence" - instead - what is requested is the transaction, the ledger, archives
The question of general intelligence is a promise of an interpretation, like a horizon, that will justify the surveillance - the "recording without reading". Silicon Valley is pretending having to have read the book, but it merely records.
December 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The question of general intelligence is a promise of an interpretation, like a horizon, that will justify the surveillance - the "recording without reading". Silicon Valley is pretending having to have read the book, but it merely records.
The question “will there be general intelligence?” presumes a horizon of interpretation that the system does not allow to exist - however it is necessary to posit this possibility - or else the justification of the surveillance will cease.
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The question “will there be general intelligence?” presumes a horizon of interpretation that the system does not allow to exist - however it is necessary to posit this possibility - or else the justification of the surveillance will cease.
To call a map “woke” because it names the Gulf of Mexico is already to confess that security has drifted from the operational, the "Real" to the contest of symbol.
December 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
To call a map “woke” because it names the Gulf of Mexico is already to confess that security has drifted from the operational, the "Real" to the contest of symbol.
This is a theatrical interface, a play-believe-as-real - the cultural theatre of security and santa - the santa - o santa - the signifier of the gift impossible to reciprocate - yet signifier simultaneously of consumption, echos the impossibility of the signifier of NORAD "security"...
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This is a theatrical interface, a play-believe-as-real - the cultural theatre of security and santa - the santa - o santa - the signifier of the gift impossible to reciprocate - yet signifier simultaneously of consumption, echos the impossibility of the signifier of NORAD "security"...