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That’s why you hide even when you have nothing to hide, so that hiding doesn’t itself become a signal.
by chrischen 7y ago
That’s why you hide even when you have nothing to hide, so that hiding doesn’t itself become a signal.
- acollins1331 7y agoThat argument works assuming you're the only one being watched. "Oh chris hasn't done anything bad even though he's hiding, we can just ignore him now". It's more like "99.8% of people don't hide, chrischen is one that does, monitor that guy".
- celticninja 7y agoAll the better, when they do monitor him and spend time cracking his shopping list is less time and resources against the everyone else
- chrischen 7y agoThat argument is why Apple tries to encrypt by default... and is actively employed by privacy advocates. Your iMessage history is hardly banking website info, yet it employs the same “Military Grade Encryption.”
- maxerickson 7y agoMy argument is that connecting to a Google server is a better way of hiding than connecting to some obscure peer to peer messaging system.
- chrischen 7y agoObscure like iMessage?
- maxerickson 7y agoNo, like the one mentioned in the comment I replied to initially. What's the point of ignoring the context of the thread and then pretending my meaning was stupid? Using iMessage would be more similar to using Gmail than to using bitmessage. Obviously so.
- chrischen 7y agoiMessage is end-to-end encrypted, and I don't think I mentioned bitmessage (not sure what that is). It is privacy all the time, even if you have nothing to hide. Privacy by default—which is what I was talking about in the comment you replied to.
- maxerickson 7y agoMy initial comment in the thread was a comparison between bitmessage and Gmail...the comment you replied to.