Re:Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations
by BlueTemplar on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:23PM
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I was actually more positive than reality, for a better "quip" - I still had a discussion where the other person pushed the "I have nothing to hide" angle as recently as last month !
And that persons' grandparents died in Auschwitz...
(Thankfully, this seems to be much more rare in the "tech" circles ?)
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Re:Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations
by BuildTheRobots on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:30PM
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The "I've got nothing to hide" angle terrifies me.
As one obvious example, LGBT Russians had absolutely nothing to hide, right up until the moment it was outlawed, again. Then suddenly it was extremely easy to identify and persecute.
In a world where we hold people like Willem Arondeus, Sophie Scholl or anyone else involved in hiding or exfiltrating Jews during WW2 a hero, it baffles me that the idea of "nothing to hide" even exists. The fact we've made a modern kinder-transport or even a resistance nearly technologically impossible honestly stops me sleeping.