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> It's almost as if putting your filing system, personal diary, correspondence, photo album, and directory on a surveillance and exfiltration device was a Bad I

> It's almost as if putting your filing system, personal diary, correspondence, photo album, and directory on a surveillance and exfiltration device was a Bad Idea. I hate that tone and way of arguing. It is as if the author is accusing everyone of buying a surveillance device and then coming up with other uses than being surveyed.

clipradiowallet 5y ago
The author assumes that everyone(including our parents and less than technical peers) knew it was a surveillance device. Saying like "1984 is not a manual.." were considered by the masses to be nothing more than a pessimistic saying. At some level...myself and [likely] others really didn't expect it to turn evil so quickly and so effectively. Meanwhile... the devices got sticky - they are packed with ways to cause addiction and enjoyment; filled with bread and circuses.
acmdas 5y ago
It almost sounds ironic...and not everyone likes irony.
- wodenokoto 5y ago
  No, it sounds sarcastic and condescending.
dredmorbius 5y ago
If I may speak on behalf of the author: There's a great deal of frustration and fatigue in that comment. The expectation isn't that the general public would have been aware of that risk. The general public is not sophisticated, and has been greatly misinformed. The technical world, the firms offering and provisioning devices, the carriers, the financiers and banks behind this, especially, are. Technology is the art of balancing desired and undesired effects. For-profit business is the art of externalising risk. And the heart of finance itself is risk. There's a very long record of cautions and warnings. They were ignored, largely because in the short term and with suffient levels of externalisation and arabitrage, those risks were profitable. https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193 https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193

clipradiowallet 5y ago

The author assumes that everyone(including our parents and less than technical peers) knew it was a surveillance device. Saying like "1984 is not a manual.." were considered by the masses to be nothing more than a pessimistic saying. At some level...myself and [likely] others really didn't expect it to turn evil so quickly and so effectively. Meanwhile... the devices got sticky - they are packed with ways to cause addiction and enjoyment; filled with bread and circuses.

acmdas 5y ago

It almost sounds ironic...and not everyone likes irony.

wodenokoto 5y ago
No, it sounds sarcastic and condescending.

dredmorbius 5y ago

If I may speak on behalf of the author: There's a great deal of frustration and fatigue in that comment. The expectation isn't that the general public would have been aware of that risk. The general public is not sophisticated, and has been greatly misinformed. The technical world, the firms offering and provisioning devices, the carriers, the financiers and banks behind this, especially, are. Technology is the art of balancing desired and undesired effects. For-profit business is the art of externalising risk. And the heart of finance itself is risk. There's a very long record of cautions and warnings. They were ignored, largely because in the short term and with suffient levels of externalisation and arabitrage, those risks were profitable. https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193 https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193