Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
by mikeash on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:30PM
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We’re in a weird transition period where all this information is now available but we’re not used to it yet. The illusion that people had a clean past is still prevalent. I suspect that in another decade or two, we’ll finally internalize the fact that everybody does stupid crap and nobody will care about it anymore.
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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
by braythwayt on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:40PM
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I'd like to think so, but when I look at the disparity between how society treats the mistakes of one class of people ("He was no angel, he stole a cigar"), and another class of people ("Standard freshman behaviour, and besides, what is 'consent' anyways?")...
My fear is that more transparency will simply widen the disparity in treatment, because there will be more ammunition to use against the weak, while the strong are protected from accountability no matter what is dug up from their past.
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Major edit: This is why I am an advocate for privacy, rather than radical transparency. I think a level playing field is a prerequisite for transparency.
Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
by cbsks on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:41PM
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Or people will realize that the internet is forever and will stop posting even slightly controversially things publicly, unless under a pseudonym. My generation may be the first and last to publicly post all of their stupid teenage thoughts on the internet for anyone to dig up later.
Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
by pizza on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:41PM
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I feel like it's more likely that someone will just automate private intelligence gathering and sell it as "generating a reputation score for job/relationship/political candidates". Like the social credit system in China.