Most people? Sure.

Most people on hacker news? Unclear.

I think a really large portion of users here would be extremely good attack targets. Developers with privileged access to source code and operations staff with privileged access to systems make up a significant portion of the users here.

Besides: Most people don't accidentally want to show up on a video conference while undressed when they accidentally hit the wrong button in some confusing skeumorphic app specific interface: The LED only warns you after its too late.

100%. The bank I used to work at had a part of the employee handbook dedicated to what happens if you're kidnapped. We're just being naive and casual as we are wont to do. Bro don't worry have another free granola bar.

And in fact one of the devs was poached by a shady bunch of foreign looking suits who would have fit right in with big brother.

In all fairness you have a split second between the light coming on and the video stream initializing to err hide your shame. What are you doing in front of your computer with no pants on? Naked yoga?

120%. I used to work in an industry where a developer was killed in a drive-by shooting, after he reported certain code to the regulatory agency.

Generally speaking - as developers type away on their packet handling or authentication code, they all too naively believe they won't be a target of a new friend or bribe.

Nation states compromising Zuckerberg come in the front door and shake his hand.

Zuckerberg basically is the nation state we should be worried about. If a foreign country wants to spy on someone, they'll do it via a Facebook pixel.

Yep. When the Saudi government wanted to persecute dissidents and journalists, they went to the service providers to get compromising info on them. They just paid employees at the companies that didn't play ball to siphon data and target people clandestinely.