News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people. Parent comment

Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by noja on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:27AM (#11728973)
With the phrase "nothing to _hide_" you are starting from a bias: that if you have something that is not public knowledge then it must be wrong or evil and must therefore be hidden.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by tome on Thursday May 19, 2016 @02:37PM (#11732532)
This is an excellent observation. Perhaps the phrase should be "If you have nothing private you have nothing to fear".
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people by noja on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:16AM (#11736261)
Exactly :)

And that better sentence busts open the assumption :)

[ Parent | on HN ]