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Re: Sexual abuse tip-off site could be sharing data with Facebook

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Sure, but can we teach grown men not to wring their hands about safety mechanisms for $SCARY_NEW_TECH at the same time they're becoming inevitable and culturally familiar?

No need to be snide. Computer security is a lot harder to learn for most people because it's abstract and requires a degree of mental modeling that most consumers aren't equipped to perform. If it were as easy as you suggest businesses/ organizations would be invulnerable to phishing attacks, which they're obviously not. And entities like that have dedicated IT and HR staff to set up/train people, which consumers typ…

I reserve the right to remain snide toward anyone who holds such insulting and condescending views toward "most people". Asserting civility, in such contexts as this one, is often used as nothing more than an excuse to avoid confronting your own antisocial behavior, however politely you manage to frame it. Social contracts need not be adhered to by either side once broken. If you wish to reinstate it, be my guest, but that's not my obligation.

It's not that they can't understand it, it's that there's plenty of other stuff to pay attention to out there, for better or worse. The threat of cold and hunger comes before more abstracted threat vectors, and you are extremely lucky to have the mental space to consider and discuss such things as privacy on this here website. If you want to ride high on your sense of innate superiority, accept for yourself the mission you seem to imply for the technologically-literate and make privacy so simple even a small child could be protected.

Re: Sexual abuse tip-off site could be sharing data with Facebook

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post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No need to be snide. Computer security is a lot harder to learn for most people because it's abstract and requires a degree of mental modeling that most consumers aren't equipped to perform. If it were as easy as you suggest businesses/ organizations would be invulnerable to phishing attacks, which they're obviously not. And entities like that have dedicated IT and HR staff to set up/train people, which consumers typ…

I reserve the right to remain snide toward anyone who holds such insulting and condescending views toward "most people". Asserting civility, in such contexts as this one, is often used as nothing more than an excuse to avoid confronting your own antisocial behavior, however politely you manage to frame it. Social contracts need not be adhered to by either side once broken. If you wish to reinstate it, be my guest, bu…

A+ pouting, would LOL and LMAO again.
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