Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites

Re:Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from t... by EdwardDiego on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:49AM (#33064972)

I'm a nobody, and fiercely proud of it. And I pity the NSA employee who has to monitor my Internet usage, they're going to see an awful lot of Javadoc, programming blogs, websites about plane crashes (and I hope they read some AdmiralCloudberg on Medium for themselves), and websites about rocks and faultlines.

In reality, as mentioned by other commenters, I'm not anything they're interested in, at best I'm a datapoint that advertisers try to categorise into a demographic (male, 30 - 50, doesn't give a shit about cars, into tech).

And anyway, they're already doing it, but impersonally.

It's the person who is very personal that I'm not enthused about.

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Re:Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from t... by vintermann on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:10AM (#33068571)

This, and all the sibling comments, is just sad.

Not only are you happy to never challenge current power in any meaningful way, but you are sure you never will be. If there is a revolution tomorrow and the Trumpists are in charge, or the Marxists, or the Russians or whatever, you're still sure you will be fine with that order too and will never rock the boat.

You're also confident that if you do nothing wrong by them you have nothing to worry about.

Instead, you've been taught to fear the weak, the nobodies. The nameless savage in the night. As if they have any more reason to hate you than the powerful have.

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