Re:The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets
by angersock on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:07PM
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I never thought I'd say this, but...
Enough with the hand-wringing. Enough with the "somebody needs to do sooooomething!". Just stop. Staaaaahp.
How long has our industry been spying on users? How much money have we made aggressively mining their data? And now, now, "These People Have Gone Too Far!"?
Please.
Everyone's got the tools. Everyone's got the knowhow, either themselves or online. Write code or quit bitching.
EDIT:
To the slightly different point given by poster: we have the power to broadcast this message of fearlessness to the populace at large, because we own their media. How hard a social media campaign would it be to overcome the fear and paranoia the .gov and mainstream media use?
Also, note that that same fearless attitude is directly contradicted by very popular social movements right now in certain consumer gaming industries. You're liable to end up with very strange bedfellows and enemies.
Enough with the hand-wringing. Enough with the "somebody needs to do sooooomething!". Just stop. Staaaaahp.
How long has our industry been spying on users? How much money have we made aggressively mining their data? And now, now, "These People Have Gone Too Far!"?
Please.
Everyone's got the tools. Everyone's got the knowhow, either themselves or online. Write code or quit bitching.
EDIT:
To the slightly different point given by poster: we have the power to broadcast this message of fearlessness to the populace at large, because we own their media. How hard a social media campaign would it be to overcome the fear and paranoia the .gov and mainstream media use?
Also, note that that same fearless attitude is directly contradicted by very popular social movements right now in certain consumer gaming industries. You're liable to end up with very strange bedfellows and enemies.