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I live under authoritarian government. The basic idea everybody here adheres to goes something like this: as long as you're going to be spied upon (and you are)
by butteroverflow 7y ago
I live under authoritarian government. The basic idea everybody here adheres to goes something like this: as long as you're going to be spied upon (and you are), it might as well be a country on the other side of the globe. We're in much greater danger from the shadowy types who are supposed to be protecting us from foreign actors (heh), than from the NSA. That's one reason why we proxy everything through US servers. So who knows…
- jgalt212 7y agoI buy that logic so long as you: 1. never travel overseas. 2. the authoritarian govt doesn't run low on cash and start selling all this data to the highest bidder. very similar to fears about the Soviet nuclear stockpile after the fall of the Soviet Union.