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This announcement has nothing to do with privacy and security and suggesting that it does is a red herring. People generally want privacy and security, as nume
by blub 6y ago
This announcement has nothing to do with privacy and security and suggesting that it does is a red herring.
People generally want privacy and security, as numerous polls show, but:
a) it's very hard to figure out if something is private/secure
b) the company can change the deal at any point
c) the market has stacked the deck against privacy and security.
Until there are laws with teeth which will punish transgressors, not much will change.
- SilasX 6y ago> a) it's very hard to figure out if something is private/secure > b) the company can change the deal at any point Yes! Don’t forget the time Firefox, bastion of privacy, forgot to update a critical cert that allowed addons to work, and then said, “don’t worry guys, the whole time we had the power to force our updates without your consent, under the guise of an analytics feature, and we used that to fix this!” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19825745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19825745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826827