Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
by ajnin on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:37PM
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This is an incredibly oppressive, totalitarian way to put things. This is literally Big Brother thinking, which says a lots about the core values of Google. You have to act exclusively in the way that society deems acceptable. Even in privacy, in places you seem safe, even in your own home, with friends or family, because someone, some device, may be watching you at any time, opening you to the judgment of others and the law.
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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
by VikingCoder on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:51PM
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I think everyone here is misinterpreting what I meant, and I take full responsibility for that.
I think we thought of computers and the internet as our allies in privacy. They are not. They are our enemies.
I think we should stop trusting computers, any computers, as much as we possibly can.
Especially if you're in a minority that your government may try to punish.
We ARE in an oppressive surveillance state. Our government is tracking us. Every business is tracking us.
I highly recommend the novel "Daemon" and sequel "Freedom" by Daniel Suarez. He's a former Security consultant, who wanted to wake people up to how fragile our digital infrastructure is.