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  • Re: 10 Years After Snowden's First Leak, What Have We Learned? [telecom]

    From Marco Moock@mo01@posteo.de to comp.dcom.telecom on Wed Jun 14 08:19:18 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.dcom.telecom

    Am 12.06.2023 um 10:32:14 Uhr schrieb The Telecom Digest:

    10 Years After Snowden's First Leak, What Have We Learned?

    Most people have learned nothing. They don't save their files on their
    own machines, they use services from Google etc.

    Many people use Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Tiktok.

    They don't care if they are spied out.

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  • From Bill Horne@telecom-replies@telecomdigest.net to comp.dcom.telecom on Wed Jun 14 20:13:49 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.dcom.telecom

    On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 08:19:18AM +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
    Am 12.06.2023 um 10:32:14 Uhr schrieb The Telecom Digest:

    10 Years After Snowden's First Leak, What Have We Learned?

    "We" weren't the ones who needed the lesson. Our government learned
    that when it hires people whom have a conscience and orders them to
    break the law, bad things happen.

    Most people have learned nothing. They don't save their files on their
    own machines, they use services from Google etc.

    Many people use Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Tiktok.

    They don't care if they are spied out.

    I think there's a kinder, gentler explanation: most people know that
    almost everything they do on their computer while at home is a trivial
    pursuit of entertainment, and not worth protecting. I don't keep my
    back records in the cloud, nor my tax files, but I keep photos of my
    family there, and pictures of our garden, and a blog as well.

    The key isn't to care about spying: it's to never put things out in
    public that we might be embarrassed to see on a billboard.

    Bill

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