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As Eric Schmidt has put it: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." So if you don't wan
by js8 10y ago
As Eric Schmidt has put it: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
So if you don't want people to know you put a tape over your webcam, maybe you shouldn't do it. ;-)
- eddz 10y agoI can see where he is coming from, but this quote is wrong on so many levels.
- the_other 10y agoEric Schmidt would say something like that: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
- kevinjcliao 10y agoHey, remember when The Lower Merion Township School remotely enabled students' laptop webcams to capture students in various stages of undress at home? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/schools-spied-on-students-webcams https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/schools-spied-... Yeah sorry Eric is wrong on this one.
- ShaneOwens 10y ago"You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide" - Most commonly attributed to Joseph Goebbels in 1933.
- Bromskloss 10y agoThat is not the problem with the statement, though.
- huuu 10y agoI commented on this related to a blind programmer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11887301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11887301 Eric Schmidt is wrong.
- beefield 10y agoSo, I assume Eric Schmidt has not only publicized his e-mail password, bank account details & activities, full health record and all correspondence with insurance companies, but offers 24/7 live stream from his google glass to the world.
- norea-armozel 10y agoSo by his logic, if I don't want people to know I'm seeing a therapist therefore I shouldn't be going to a therapist? Seriously, dude needs to kindly stuff it. Sorry for the snark, but it really annoys me when I see that "if you've done nothing wrong then you have no reason to hide" meme repeated.