Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Dissidents

Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss... by zacketysack2 on Monday May 30, 2016 @01:05PM (#11802137)

So I've been thinking about this, and I think the main reason why non-technical people get flustered when talking about privacy and anonymity online is because they might feel guilty about doing nothing about it.

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Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss... by astral303 on Monday May 30, 2016 @02:06PM (#11802369)

Computers are incredibly complicated to use and full of stupid bullshit rules.

The average person is barely staying above water trying to use computers and not get fucked (I.e. Losing their work due to a keyboard mispress), that it's very overwhelming to consider security and privacy on top.

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Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss... by anubisresources on Monday May 30, 2016 @01:50PM (#11802310)

I've always thought it's more a matter of ignorance. Most infosec risks are fairly abstract and difficult to grasp for non-technical folks. Many don't understand why what they are doing is bad.

I really think that the infosec needs to do a much better job educating the public.

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