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Hm, IMHO most of the ridiculed under "paranoia" would not be ridiculed anymore post-Snowden. Government listening on all your Internet activity? Remotely destro
by bipson 7y ago
Hm, IMHO most of the ridiculed under "paranoia" would not be ridiculed anymore post-Snowden. Government listening on all your Internet activity? Remotely destroying hardware? I mean, not only are these things possible, as we now know, they actually happen.
Joke's on us?
- majewsky 7y ago> Mom: "Don't do that! I don't want my voice on the internet!" Alexa, tell me how much the times have changed.
- petercooper 7y agoThe very first item on the paranoia page is ridiculing someone who heard on TV that loading a random disk into their computer could open their machine to remotely located hackers. Laughable in 1985, perhaps, but this threat has existed for real since the mid 90s for almost every computer user(!)