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Pretty sure it uses HTTPS, but if you're on a corporate network on corporate hardware, there is a real chance that there's a corporate MITM proxy that is capable of reading all of your HTTPS traffic.
Only if you have their root certificate trusted
Just my own opinion, but at this point I think it's prudent to assume that pretty much anything you send out into the digital network world is public. If it's not something you would want the world knowing you said, don't put it out there. Security breaches happen. Bugs happen. Sometimes law enforcement just comes by and says, "Give me everything that user X has ever done." In short, sh!t happens. "Everything I do on…
I'm often surprised how much people share via Slack as if it's an impenetrable fortress: perfect for pasting admin passwords, keys, and incriminating opinions and business secrets... if that floodgate ever opens then it will be a crazy time for us devs!
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Or openly conservative in the USA
Conservatives control our federal and most state governments. They recently had control of all three branches of the federal government. The idea that conservatives are a disenfranchised or endangered group is absolutely ludicrous.
Being conservative is the new taboo.
Shouldn't this involve lots of penalties? This has the potential to change/ruin lives drastically. A prudent consumer never trusts what the companies say nowadays. However, that shouldn't absolve the company of falsely claiming private product when it isn't so.
Penalties for... what? Did you pay for the product? You are using a free service. You get what you pay for...
We really need regulation here.
Just my own opinion, but at this point I think it's prudent to assume that pretty much anything you send out into the digital network world is public. If it's not something you would want the world knowing you said, don't put it out there. Security breaches happen. Bugs happen. Sometimes law enforcement just comes by and says, "Give me everything that user X has ever done." In short, sh!t happens. "Everything I do on…
I know what you say is true,but I still would behave as if some aspects of my digital behavior is private. Otherwise I'd be allowing this lack of privacy to shape and mold who I am as a person.
Just my own opinion, but at this point I think it's prudent to assume that pretty much anything you send out into the digital network world is public. If it's not something you would want the world knowing you said, don't put it out there. Security breaches happen. Bugs happen. Sometimes law enforcement just comes by and says, "Give me everything that user X has ever done." In short, sh!t happens. "Everything I do on…
Eric Schmidt: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." People have taken this different ways, but personally I think it's sage advice. We've lost our ability to keep secrets. Information wants to be free. We're terrible at digital security. Pretend everything you type into a computer is on the front page of the New York Times.
... Says the billionaire to the gay man in Nigeria who could be killed if this were public knowledge?
... Says the billionaire to the journalist with private sources doing legit work?
... Says the billionaire to the person who votes 'ABC' but works in company who votes 'XYZ' and hate those 'ABC voters' and who could lose their job due to blatant political discrimination?
I quite fundamentally disagree with this concept as it abnegates the very nature of privacy.
Different words, ideas, have utterly different meanings in different social contexts and in different cultures, different regimes.
It's a deeply cynical quote from him, I think, that facilitates his own 'bottom line' i.e. as someone who makes billions from the exchange of 'public' information.
"We've lost our ability to keep secrets."
It's true that privacy is harder but it's definitely not true that we can't keep secrets. We control technology and the internet, and we can definitely 'choose privacy', it's mostly a matter of will, and the pragmatic acceptance that it won't be perfect.
Privacy was taken for granted, but I believe we should recognize it as a basic right.
It'll be a little bit harder for example in the digital age, but we can absolutely have it, we just need to make the choice.
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Eric Schmidt: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." People have taken this different ways, but personally I think it's sage advice. We've lost our ability to keep secrets. Information wants to be free. We're terrible at digital security. Pretend everything you type into a computer is on the front page of the New York Times.
Better not be openly gay in Russia! Or openly gay 15 years ago and have them scrape old data and find out.
Do you have any sources on this? This kind of retroactive censorship seems to be the latest fashion in the English-speaking world [1][2][3], and it's reasonable to expect such fashion to spread in Russia, but I haven't heard of any examples.
[1] https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zmdwk3/here-are-the-homo...
[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/01/10/everton-defe...
[3] http://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/23138/conor-dalys-nascar...
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Not just the cloud. Any internet connected system, whether in the cloud or on-premises, is vulnerable to intrusion, data breaches, etc. The only system that would be somewhat trustworthy would be a totally air-gapped internal system. This used to be the norm, pre-internet. Few businesses really have this today.
Yes I worked for a totally airgapped defence contractor many years ago. It was very boring :)