Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To   : Arelor
From : Boraxman
Date : Thu May 15 2025 08:03 am

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Ar>   Re: Re: Most memorable modern
Ar>   By: Cougar428 to BORAXMAN on
Ar> Fri May 09 2025 09:23 am

>  If you do anything on the web, it's pretty much public information. So
>  really the only way to stay private is to not participate in anything.
>  Whether it is worth it to you, that's another matter. Do the pro's
>  outweigh the cons...

Ar> I think this is lamb mentality.

Ar> My experience is that most people who don't want to take good
Ar> operational security practices love to just skip them altogether and
Ar> then use the "we are doomed anyway" line as an excuse.

Ar> I am official Captain Paranoia in my workplace and everybody laughts at
Ar> my back, except when they pickpocketed one of the accountants and stole
Ar> a pendrive loaded with private accounting information. Then nobody
Ar> laughted at the funny pen drive with an encryption chipset.

Ar> There are lots of places in which you can still have safe Internet
Ar> interations with cool people as long as you don't play it stupid. If
Ar> you want to use Facebook using a clearnet connection because you are
Ar> doomed anyway then that is on you.

The whole "You can't do anything, so may as well not try" argument, is the line
of a loser.  Losers say things like this.

It is OBSERVABLY true that there are degrees of privacy and security, and we
can
make ourselves more secure.  My sarcastic comment about locking the doors was
to
show just that, that we KNOW we can reduce risk by making it harder.  Do you
just choose to completely diregard your health, because you may still get sick?

I'm deeply suspicious of those who say we shouldn't try.

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