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Mass surveillance and the abuse of personal data either by the government or companies (for instance predatory advertisement or things like being denied loans)
by contrarian1234 3y ago
Mass surveillance and the abuse of personal data either by the government or companies (for instance predatory advertisement or things like being denied loans) are things that can potentially negatively affect a large swath of the population in a future where the government and companies go rotten.
Yes, if you're in the 0.1% that is working on nuclear missiles or technological equivalents - and you are a direct target of espionage.. then my train of thought clearly wouldn't apply. The vast majority of the population is of no interest to foreign intelligence.. and never will be. Fantasizing that some day you will be is loosing sight of the big, and much more likely threat closer to home
- jstarfish 3y ago> if you're in the 0.1% that is working on nuclear missiles or technological equivalents - and you are a direct target of espionage.. then my train of thought clearly wouldn't apply. The vast majority of the population is of no interest to foreign intelligence.. and never will be. This isn't James Bond. The only way you could exhibit more ignorance about espionage would be by suggesting spies in balaclavas rappel through laser arrays to hack mainframes and steal blueprints. Foreign intelligence services target people in far more banal positions, all the way down to lowly network engineers, with boring goals like compromising communications infrastructure so the country you're about to invade can't coordinate defense.
- Sanzig 3y agoDoesn't even have to be an invasion. Industrial espionage, IP theft, cyberattacks against critical infrastructure... plenty of hostile acts that aren't all-out war which can be facilitated by having a compromised insider.