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> I'm more concerned about the gradual decline of privacy caused by the fear-mongering situations like outlined above. (If you meant this than I misundersto

> I'm more concerned about the gradual decline of privacy caused by the fear-mongering situations like outlined above. (If you meant this than I misunderstood you, sry.) Yeah I kinda did actually. :) Though I wouldn't use the term "fear mongering" about anyone's legitimate concern from their perspective. The anxiety comes from seeing that poor digital security is just (perhaps a deliberate) part of a complex situation forming. It's one that threatens to usher in precisely the fascism we fought world wars to eliminate - but via the back door "for the children". BTW I agree with your pragmatic, "well let's see about that" attitude. It's what gets me through the day too.

fodkodrasz 3y ago
I was into prepping for a while, but let go of the stuff, seeing the "Cassandras" being disappointed for the catastrophe taking the lives of millions does not happen. I see pessimist/alarmist people a bit more skeptically now, the more grandiose the threat they envision the more skeptical I am, as now I'm always assuming a bit of narcissism in the background. Problems exist, and we need to talk about them, to realize and eventually solve them, or be able to informedly ignore them. But the constant impending doom as portrayed by the media since ever (probably Goebbels is at fault, and his counterparts in rival empires) makes me apathetic, as a form of self-defence. fear mongering: I did not mean to tell you were fear mongering, rather I thought you might be a victim of it with your perception magnified by subjective experience. I just outlined some fear-mongering scenarios about which we are always told to be afraid of the ITSec threats. (and which are overblown in my opinion, not because of the lack of feasibility, but the lack of utility carrying them out, as the possibilities were mostly there already without IT.)

fodkodrasz 3y ago

I was into prepping for a while, but let go of the stuff, seeing the "Cassandras" being disappointed for the catastrophe taking the lives of millions does not happen. I see pessimist/alarmist people a bit more skeptically now, the more grandiose the threat they envision the more skeptical I am, as now I'm always assuming a bit of narcissism in the background. Problems exist, and we need to talk about them, to realize and eventually solve them, or be able to informedly ignore them. But the constant impending doom as portrayed by the media since ever (probably Goebbels is at fault, and his counterparts in rival empires) makes me apathetic, as a form of self-defence. fear mongering: I did not mean to tell you were fear mongering, rather I thought you might be a victim of it with your perception magnified by subjective experience. I just outlined some fear-mongering scenarios about which we are always told to be afraid of the ITSec threats. (and which are overblown in my opinion, not because of the lack of feasibility, but the lack of utility carrying them out, as the possibilities were mostly there already without IT.)