Maybe because you don’t understand their position?
He’s not saying he wants to spam the world with every private detail while giving away anything of value to anyone who asks, he’s saying he’s not going to let fear of private details escaping keep him from living the way he wants to.
I also don’t have the privacy obsession. But I wouldn’t get anything of value from handing my phone to someone I don’t trust, especially if they’re a zealot who mistakenly thinks that action is necessary to justify my choice of email provider.
If you want to be really devilish, once they unlock their phone plug it into a computer in front of them.
If they ask what you’re doing tell them “I have a buyer for all of this…”
Some people are happy to sell their souls because they assume they’re virtuous enough to get universal approval.
Some people are naive.
Re:Giving Up on Privacy (2011)
by the_only_law on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:53AM
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To be fair, try the experiment again, but impersonate a police officer.
I do the same thing with their phones. I ask them to unlock their phone and then hand it over to me so I can look through it. Oddly enough, none of these folks who have "nothing to hide" have ever handed over their phone to me. Watch what people do, not what they say.