Battleangel

A professor at a US university is harassed for using TOR and teaching students how onion routing can be useful. Because obviously, you can’t have people making it near impossible for the government to keep tabs on your online activity. Privacy is unconstitutional, war is peace and up is down.

Meanwhile, neuroscientists warn that new high resolution brain scans coupled with new techniques for analysis and interpretation might be used as evidence sooner than anyone anticipated. Regardless of whether the interpreted intentions have any bearing on real life or if the interpretation is even plausible. After all, the fact that “lie detectors” in various forms or torture for that matter don’t work hasn’t stopped said methods from flourishing throughout the centuries, from witch hunters to the current practices of the US empire. And so it can be surmised that brain scans will be admissible as evidence as soon as humanly possible. In the end, as people are convinced of the accuracy of the method, the powers that be will have, at their disposal, the easiest method yet to indict dissenters. Because picking people up at random and sending them off to torture chambers obviously wasn’t arbitrary enough.