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One of the big things for me is the demise of trustworthiness in just about everything. Extremely cheap phone calls plus Caller ID spoofing has made the telepho
by flyinghamster 7y ago
One of the big things for me is the demise of trustworthiness in just about everything. Extremely cheap phone calls plus Caller ID spoofing has made the telephone almost useless (raise your hand if you only answer callers in your contact list!), email has never been trustworthy, and the internet has made it possible for hoaxes to spread farther and faster than ever.
- muzani 7y agoThere's an app for that: Truecaller. It crowdsources who is calling.
- jmkni 7y agoThere was a news story recently about a journalist who got outed by Truecaller, ended up putting her at risk, I’ll try and find it Edit: https://privacyinternational.org/case-study/2997/betrayed-app-she-had-never-heard-how-truecaller-endangering-journalists https://privacyinternational.org/case-study/2997/betrayed-ap...
- yellow_lead 7y agoAnd adds all your contacts with a misclick.
- munmaek 7y agoWhy would I hand over my contact info to some app?
- muzani 7y agoBecause everyone else has done it for you. It's no worse than LinkedIn but actually useful.
- Deimorz 7y agoThis is a good article on that topic: https://www.wired.com/story/internet-made-dupes-cynics-of-us-all/ https://www.wired.com/story/internet-made-dupes-cynics-of-us... > The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function.