Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products

> It is that people don't really care that they are being

> spied on.

Well, my experience is that people care but don't have an idea on how they could change that. They feel powerless, have no idea what to do, and they are apathic. They accept their shackles like they deserve it. They know they are abused but since they are human, they use coping mechanisms to continue using apps they believe are actually not so nice for them.

Of course they have thoughts like "actually, my picture is not private anymore", but for their sanity of mind they carry on because of network effects/ease of use/etc. They choose to push those thoughts off, as they are outside of their control. To us, it might sound like they just don't care. That's wrong!

At least, that is what I conclude after talking with non-techies about this stuff.

I am sure you can sell privacy as a big plus, but you need to deal with above aspects as well.

Curious claim. Has there been any research that shows states are less likely to fail with universal suffrage?

> When it comes to voting for president, my vote as a Vermonter is objectively worth 2.63 times as much as my friend from Washington

See, that’s the confusion. You’re not voting for president directly. You’re voting for who you want your electoral college to vote for. In most states if you’re on the losing side of the vote in your state, your presidential vote literally means nothing.

Your individual vote in Vermont is not “worth more” than your friend’s vote in Washington because your both just voting in state level decisions about who the college should vote for.

The legitimate claim is about the number of delegates and (arguably much more important) the number of house representatives each state is getting.

Reiterated, there isn’t a lack of 1 person 1 vote equivalence in any elections I know of in the US (e.g. landowners don’t get extra votes). There are just elections people think are direct democracy when they are far from it.

Imagine going to the city and there is this trenchcoat and hat wearing private agent following you all day and you go into a store and see him handing the salesman a note and pointing at you, and then the sales guy comes over to you and says "good day - do you want to buy red things? and you are like "actually i am looking ..." and the agent is now uncomfortably leaning into you conversation, "... for green things". Sales says "sure this way, please" and the agent is writing "green!" in his notebook, circling it three times. That is what the internet is like today. And you look around and everyone has these agents following them, keeping notes. You ask someone about it they say "well most people don't even notice them" or "that is how things are" or "people shouldn't expect not to be spied on by private corporations". So you hurry home while from every side street more agents come and try to follow you until you have this horde on your track and you hasten into your door with a crowd outside holding up signs like "buy red things!" and "green thing is green!" - but you are now at home so you relax and walk through your hallway to your room and say "computer: play some licensed music" and guitar music starts playing and -shocker- there are agents in your living room, one sitting on your couch playing the guitar, one is standing in front of your bookshelf taking notes of its content and another one is looking through your fridge, then stares directly at you and holds a sign up: "buy food"

The internet is nothing like outside.

[0] eg http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/