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I had a YouTube employee login to my account, defaced my video titles and description. And Google wouldn’t do a thing about it. Don’t trust FAANGs and other ‘wangs’ with your private content !
Banks routinely hire hit-n-run contractors to manage systems will low level, uncontrolled, unaudited access to mind boggling resources and eye popping access to private customers info. Email porn? Child play.
Everything has to get decrypted at some point, right? I try not to think about what would happen if a Google employee decided to leak everyone's search history.
It's sobering to think about this in tandem with the fact that people in the IQ bracket for “engineer” tend to get away with crimes. Honestly, though, at least this can be turned into a concrete example to shoot down “if you don't have anything to hide...” and the like. The banal, lascivious panopticon elicits a real disgust response that might be moving, as opposed to the “shut up you alex jones weirdo” that sticks…
This is even more troubling because smart people are less likely to be caught.
At least, like Snowden's leaks, this is proof that privacy extremists aren't conspiracy nuts, and hopefully it will open a few eyes to the real danger of giving up privacy.
Other comments are right: stop using big words and write plain sentences.
Banks routinely hire hit-n-run contractors to manage systems will low level, uncontrolled, unaudited access to mind boggling resources and eye popping access to private customers info. Email porn? Child play.
It's sobering to think about this in tandem with the fact that people in the IQ bracket for “engineer” tend to get away with crimes. Honestly, though, at least this can be turned into a concrete example to shoot down “if you don't have anything to hide...” and the like. The banal, lascivious panopticon elicits a real disgust response that might be moving, as opposed to the “shut up you alex jones weirdo” that sticks…
Just for the sake of feedback, I found your post confusing. It's not really clear to me what you are saying exactly.
It's sobering to think about this in tandem with the fact that people in the IQ bracket for “engineer” tend to get away with crimes. Honestly, though, at least this can be turned into a concrete example to shoot down “if you don't have anything to hide...” and the like. The banal, lascivious panopticon elicits a real disgust response that might be moving, as opposed to the “shut up you alex jones weirdo” that sticks…
Just for the sake of feedback, I found your post confusing. It's not really clear to me what you are saying exactly.
Spedru posits the covert and exposed deviants within companies, that we've exchanged our data with, are another style of entity (besides state actors) that we ought to strive to deprive of access to that data.
At least, that's as charitably as I can characterize the comment.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Encryption, in email? lol... This is what happens when end-to-end encryption isn't the default in communications software. All email providers are vulnerable to this bar none.
Honestly I'd like to see one of the webmail providers do a decent attempt at gpg. The web migrated from a primarily unencrypted state to an encrypted one - it's not impossible with the right UX.
For consumers, owning the encryption keys means account recovery is impossible when they inevitably lose their keys. IM services can get away with it, because losing your IM history is not nearly as serious as losing your inbox.
For businesses, you’re not going to be able to sell a service that makes filtering impossible. This is bad for consumers too, but an absolute deal breaker for most businesses.
Training is important because new employees or new college grads might not be aware of truly how egregious it is to view someone's personal data. It really had to be drilled into the culture. By audits and alerts, I mean that if one employee accesses sensitive information, they know that other teammates are getting an alert about it. People do such things when they think nobody will know.