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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by CobrastanJorji on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:26PM (#22428630)
While I understand the rank hypocrisy here, tech billionaires have a slightly different risk calculation than your average Joe. For example, Jeff Bezos's iPhone was hacked by a nation state using zero day exploits of video playback, delivered via a person message from its head of state. People like Bezos and Zuckerberg are on the wrong end of James Mickens's "Mossad or not-Mossad" threat model and should be taking different precautions than the average person.
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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by lonelappde on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:32PM (#22429120)
The people's whose weddings got bombed by drones, or who get thrown in jail for having the same skin color and being in the same city block as an alleged perpetrator, may see it differently from you.
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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by ben_w on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:00AM (#22431766)
There is indeed a lot wrong in this world.

What you describe is an additional problem. A normal person targeted by a blackmailer over their sexual history would be a closer model, although even then it would still not be close to the level of a state sponsored attack on you personally — that can include combining the drones with accurate information rather than whatever led to them hitting weddings, or it could be as mild as Van Eck phreaking to find what you’re looking/who you’re talking to at no matter how well you encrypt the connection.

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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by visarga on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:47AM (#22434925)
Apparently being Zuck means you need to have an insane level of protection. But regular people also have things to lose when their privacy is thrown out the toilet. Thanks to z.
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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by ben_w on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:16AM (#22442002)
Yes, I absolutely agree. Worse, most people don’t grok what computers can do, so they are unaware of how much they have lost until this bites them.

Oh for the innocent bygone days of around 15 years ago.

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