I lacked in not posting a solution. The trick to winning the scenario previously described is to control the definition of one element in the strategic equation. If artistic expression of an individual, for example, were properly protected by law, this is a definition owned by population. But such expression is only enforced on behalf of corporations. If platforms were elected instead of politicians, making the politicians expendable to the desired platform, returning control to the population electing the platform by allowing the platform to continue despite the delays or derailment by a particular politician, the platform is a definition owned by population, but this means a true democracy and isn't likely to happen in time. If electronic evidence is routinely rejected by courts as manipulable by security agencies, because ultimately all of electronic evidence can be created by security agencies for their purposes, this would remove controlling definitions from those agencies, but it has already been described that the security agencies are beyond the courts.

The answer is: Delay. The one element potentially under population control is time of implementation. Protests are forming against globalization, these forces must be given time before electronic evidence is made sacrosanct by security agencies. How folks delay is a lengthy article, but individual encryption is a really good start. The only good thing about corporate moves towards globalization is that the obsession with quick profit allows for more alarming misteps.

If you folks don't agree, pray tell me, what definition of your life could you control, if I control electronic evidence of my creation to be deployed against you? Your ISP says the traffic came to your home. The files reside on your computer. The site you connected to says, yeah, your machine made the connection. You are home at the right time, because where are you at 3 am in the morning if not at home? And what are you doing at 3am if you weren't fooling around with the computer? Asleep? Likely story. Can you prove that? So a deposit is made to your account, or the files depict things no family man could stomach, your boss can't stomach it either, and, gee, all computer professionals say the headers are correct. You'll be in court, staring into space dreaming of flowery meadows, wishing to hell you hadn't organized that rally, or threw a bomb instead like some flake.

Delay them, gentlemen. All computer professionals should do everything possible to delay access to an individual's electronic data by government and corporation. They have made a formal alliance. All population has is us.

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