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Upcoming /s- It would really suck if someone could watch my front door. Like, they might know when my package arrives? Or what if someone checked my naked foo

Upcoming /s- It would really suck if someone could watch my front door. Like, they might know when my package arrives? Or what if someone checked my naked footage? /S I really don't care. Should I care?

choward 7y ago
The only reason you had to explain it was sarcasm is of course you should care. You sound like one of those "I have nothing to hide" people even though having something to hide is completely irrelevant. You're being spied on and you don't see any problems with that? And by the way, everyone has something to hide whether they know it or not.
- rococode 7y ago
  There's that one TED talk about privacy where the guy says something like, "People say they have nothing to hide, but do any of you want to give me access to your private email account right now? No? Right, no one's ever taken me up on that". I've always thought that was a bit of a strawman. In the case of my front door, I really wouldn't mind even if it were livestreamed for the whole world to watch. I agree that "I have nothing to hide" is generally a poor argument, but I think when it's more specific it can be a valid statement, e.g. "I have nothing to hide when it comes to things that go on outside my front door". I can't recall in my entire life a single event outside my front door that I would care about other people being able to watch. Can I imagine a scenario where I might want privacy at my front door? Sure. Maybe my friend becomes a fugitive and comes to me looking for help. Maybe I become a CIA informant and they come to secretly meet with me. But in the few situations I can think of where I would actually care about total privacy around my front door, I'd hope I would have the prescience to pop out the batteries in advance. I legitimately cannot think of a single case in which I might care that someone is watching my front entryway. Of course, I don't feel the same way about other camera positions. But I think I'm a pretty security-conscious guy (my in-home security cameras are airgapped and streamed to a local server) and I have a Ring on my front door and have no qualms about it.
  - godshatter 7y ago
    If your front door were live streamed then people can basically watch your front door 24/7 while being invisible to you. They can watch long enough to be 99% certain the house is empty and rob you, or they can see if a package has arrived and you're not normally due home for hours and grab it. It would make casing the joint pretty easy.

choward 7y ago

The only reason you had to explain it was sarcasm is of course you should care. You sound like one of those "I have nothing to hide" people even though having something to hide is completely irrelevant. You're being spied on and you don't see any problems with that? And by the way, everyone has something to hide whether they know it or not.

rococode 7y ago
There's that one TED talk about privacy where the guy says something like, "People say they have nothing to hide, but do any of you want to give me access to your private email account right now? No? Right, no one's ever taken me up on that". I've always thought that was a bit of a strawman. In the case of my front door, I really wouldn't mind even if it were livestreamed for the whole world to watch. I agree that "I have nothing to hide" is generally a poor argument, but I think when it's more specific it can be a valid statement, e.g. "I have nothing to hide when it comes to things that go on outside my front door". I can't recall in my entire life a single event outside my front door that I would care about other people being able to watch. Can I imagine a scenario where I might want privacy at my front door? Sure. Maybe my friend becomes a fugitive and comes to me looking for help. Maybe I become a CIA informant and they come to secretly meet with me. But in the few situations I can think of where I would actually care about total privacy around my front door, I'd hope I would have the prescience to pop out the batteries in advance. I legitimately cannot think of a single case in which I might care that someone is watching my front entryway. Of course, I don't feel the same way about other camera positions. But I think I'm a pretty security-conscious guy (my in-home security cameras are airgapped and streamed to a local server) and I have a Ring on my front door and have no qualms about it.
- godshatter 7y ago
  If your front door were live streamed then people can basically watch your front door 24/7 while being invisible to you. They can watch long enough to be 99% certain the house is empty and rob you, or they can see if a package has arrived and you're not normally due home for hours and grab it. It would make casing the joint pretty easy.