I always read these articles to the end hoping I would find some substance and I am always diappointed.
Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would love if someone made a Chrome extension that encrypted all the posts and messages you put on Facebook. That is, any post you made would be made as a ciphertext, the extension would swap keys with all your friends in the background, and would decrypt their posts when displaying them to you. Sure Marky Mark still sees when you post, who you send messages to, etc. but it's a much better situation than what's goi…
You're so close to what I am currently building that I feel like I have to chime in. I left Apple's security team a few months ago to go solo and build an app that is similar to Facebook/Instagram and Snapchat in terms of functionality and UX but uses the Olm protocol (similar to Signal) to protect all content. So, fear not - something is being done, and I'm sure I'm not the only one working in this problem space. I…
hey, im going to implement something similar as well, and your idea gave me an idea - id 'like some help getting started - grappling with crypto since im new.
can we get in touch somehow ? too bad hn doesn't allow private messages.
Re: Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would love if someone made a Chrome extension that encrypted all the posts and messages you put on Facebook. That is, any post you made would be made as a ciphertext, the extension would swap keys with all your friends in the background, and would decrypt their posts when displaying them to you. Sure Marky Mark still sees when you post, who you send messages to, etc. but it's a much better situation than what's goi…
You're so close to what I am currently building that I feel like I have to chime in. I left Apple's security team a few months ago to go solo and build an app that is similar to Facebook/Instagram and Snapchat in terms of functionality and UX but uses the Olm protocol (similar to Signal) to protect all content. So, fear not - something is being done, and I'm sure I'm not the only one working in this problem space. I…
> left Apple's security team
It's a fine line between safe distrust and full blown schizophrenic paranoia, isn't it?
You probably can't tell at the moment but that's how it starts.
Re: Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would love if someone made a Chrome extension that encrypted all the posts and messages you put on Facebook. That is, any post you made would be made as a ciphertext, the extension would swap keys with all your friends in the background, and would decrypt their posts when displaying them to you. Sure Marky Mark still sees when you post, who you send messages to, etc. but it's a much better situation than what's goi…
You're so close to what I am currently building that I feel like I have to chime in. I left Apple's security team a few months ago to go solo and build an app that is similar to Facebook/Instagram and Snapchat in terms of functionality and UX but uses the Olm protocol (similar to Signal) to protect all content. So, fear not - something is being done, and I'm sure I'm not the only one working in this problem space. I…
How are you going to recreate the main selling point of facebook, i.e. the Newsfeed ? If things are encrypted, how are you going to determine relevance, etc.
Re: Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
#215This reads like sponsored article for Share Lab, piggy backing off of big data phobia. >"Facebook has lots of data and we have no idea what they do with it, but here's what the smart people at Share Lab can do with data."
Is it ? I read the article and was pissed that there was no link to the actual charts or source.
I'm not sure what you're referring to with big data phobia, computer related privacy concerns have been around for a couple decades before facebook beginnings, IIRC it was a thing a few years before zuckerberg's birth. Then privacy concerns about facebook have existed a little while before its conception with Facemash.
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#217I signed up for facebook two years ago, didn't put any real information on there, then haven't touched it since. I still get emails about "people you might know" that they have absolutely no business knowing about and aren't in any way connected to my immediate family. It's creepy and I don't want them storing that information about me, but there's nothing I can do. I've been cautious about putting my information on…
That's the beauty of it, the useds themselves are snitching on their friends. Not only are facebook useds working for facebook for free exposing themselves and others, they also provide troves of metadata.
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#218Facebook is the new NSA inside the flesh of a social media site. And that's scary.
They might be worse. The NSA, after all, is at least ostensibly only after terrorists and such.
I don't know where you got this idea. The NSA is known for being close to useless in terrorism matters and champion of industrial espionage and spying on political leaders.
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#219Facebook is the new NSA inside the flesh of a social media site. And that's scary.
I thought NSA was supposed to be limited to foreign intelligence, facebook has no such limitation. Besides IIRC CIA's IN-Q-TEL is among the first investors in facebook.
So facebook is much more that NSA, though they probably provide the NSA. AFAIK the "social media website" label is the PR/marketing way to say "global tracking/surveillance tool fueled by exploiting its registered users".
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#220I think this should be analyzed in connection with Uber's GreyBalling ( https://www.google.pl/search?q=greyballing ), and maybe also with the diesel emission cheats. Corporations are gaining power and sooner or later they'll start disregard the law - because states will not be able to enforce it.
you are about a century late here, the whole 20th century was about democratic and freedom progress, a shift of power from politician to corporations and corporations using the acquired power to fight against and protect themselves from the democratic progress.