Re:Ask HN: What if gmail was compromised?
by clubm8 on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:22PM
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>People are digging through your data to figure out that you visited this brothel in Thailand, or googled the N-word back in 2009, and activists will send that information to your employer, friends and family. Every query you entered on a porn site. Every time you bought drugs online. Every comment you left on any site. Every sex toy you bought. Every photo you thought was deleted. Everything.
I think I'd have herd immunity - my "indiscretions" are fairly benign, and I think the outcome would be everyone collectively decides not to judge each other for what in the grand scheme of things are mild and private matters.
Re:Ask HN: What if gmail was compromised?
by deanmoriarty on Thursday November 01, 2018 @11:55PM
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This was so scary and well written, I applaud your style.
Do you know if there is some similar material to what you’re describing online? I’m not talking about the leaks themselves, just stories/books about these distopian scenarios.
Re:Ask HN: What if gmail was compromised?
by nf05papsjfVbc on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:48AM
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At an abstract level, "Animal Farm" is not far from such a theme.
Re:Ask HN: What if gmail was compromised?
by deanmoriarty on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:56AM
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Yeah, I read that book, phenomenal read. Was more thinking of something focused on potential big tech giants' leaks implications.
Re:Ask HN: What if gmail was compromised?
by tonteldoos on Sunday November 04, 2018 @07:21PM
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The Circle? A heavily underrated book, I think.
Re:Ask HN: What if gmail was compromised?
by rorykoehler on Monday November 05, 2018 @07:27AM
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If that happened I as an employer would ignore all that stuff unless it was very serious (ie child porn). I would expect the same as an employee. Honestly people should have the freedom to be curious and explore the world as they see fit. It would be a very boring place if we all stayed on the straight and narrow according to some arbitrary norm.
The idea being:
- Every geographic location you ever visited, every password, every google search you made is now available to anyone publicly, with a convenient web search interface.
- People are digging through your data to figure out that you visited this brothel in Thailand, or googled the N-word back in 2009, and activists will send that information to your employer, friends and family. Every query you entered on a porn site. Every time you bought drugs online. Every comment you left on any site. Every sex toy you bought. Every photo you thought was deleted. Everything.
- Finally, the hacktivists who performed this selectively left out roughly 50% of the data, the data of the people who are on "their side", their supporters, and included only the data of the groups they don't like.