CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist

Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by uola on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @09:55AM (#11945582)

It's not that they don't care, it's that they are asked to give up a lot for fairly vague risks. I have friends who don't use social platforms and go trough the effort to use encryption and deploy their own systems. They loose more freedom not expressing themselves than they gain, especially since intelligence agencies can still target you. Not only can they correlate things with all your friends that use social platforms, they will get much more targeted profile from the data you inadvertently leak.

I don't think technologists who ask users to do complicated things or blame them when things go wrong care about privacy Especially when large tech companies make bank by not standardizing things that should be fundamental rights in communication. To me a lot of this (but not everything) is banker level arrogance similar to pension funds or housing markets where "people should have known we were selling them crap".

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Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by sametmax on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @02:03PM (#11947903)

I agree the trade off is not in favor of privacy and tech saavy users tend to live far away from the regular users needs.

But it's also that people value most things over privacy. To me, valuing the hability to express yourself on facebook over freedom is not a good bet. Just like valuing the hability to smoke over your health is not a good one.

I do understand why people do it. I have my share of similar self-destructive behaviours.

Still it's commun that important things like ecology, freedom, health are discarded over confort, convenience and quick rewards.

And privacy falls exactly in that category.

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