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Turns out that people who were saying that these kinds of services are going to give access to Government actors, sell their databases or just have them hacked/
by Culonavirus 3y ago
Turns out that people who were saying that these kinds of services are going to give access to Government actors, sell their databases or just have them hacked/stolen by malicious actors because of garbage security were, in fact, correct. Color me not surprised.
- poszlem 3y agoI will color you cynical instead.
- Loughla 3y agoIs it still cynicism if it's accurate?
- timnetworks 3y agoIt is if the future is stupid.
- tomrod 3y agoI have bad news for you...
- ilovetux 3y agoAcuracy does not factor into whether a statement is cynicism.
- davisoneee 3y agoWe only highlight the cases where the cynicism paid off...and in this case praising someone who is saying something pithy _after the fact_. It's easy to throw out cynical opinions. It's also easy to come along later and say "I _knew_ this would happen"
- KronisLV 3y agoSometimes cynicism is well warranted. Security is just very hard to get right, in general, regardless of who you are.
- npoc 3y agoThis isn't cynicism. It's intelligence - making an accurate prediction of future events.
- davisoneee 3y agoEven a broken clock is right twice a day. Intelligence is being able to _consistently_ make accurate predictions of the future.
- ChildOfChaos 3y agoJust because something ended up being right doesn't mean it was intelligent. Things don't work in absolute, most things are a bet. If one outcome is 99% likely and the other 1%, the intelligent thing is choosing the 99% likelihood, but that still means that sometimes the person making the bad choice was right. That doesn't make them intelligent, it makes them lucky.
- pyrale 3y agoCynicism is often a coping mechanism for people that have seen too many such events happen. It's actually only a problem when it guides choices from decision makers ahead of time, there's nothing wrong with some cynicism as long as it doesn't guide your actions.
- worksonmine 3y agoHow is one not cynical today?
- cudgy 3y agoCynicism is a general distrust in other people’s motives. How does one conclude that distrust expressed in a single event constitutes general distrust? Don’t we need many more examples of distrust from this person before branding them as cynical?
- bayindirh 3y agoIf you think that governments are not already building gene pools of their populations, I can color you a hip shade of naive, too, if you consent of course.
- shafyy 3y agoOk, I'll bite. Which governments are you referring to? And how are they doing this? And how do you know of this?
- jtc331 3y agoIsn’t it true that it’s already widely known that some US states (or the US itself; can’t remember details) stores DNA of anyone ever booked by the police even if not charged or charged and acquitted?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoI’m not the person you’re responding to but their claim doesn’t seem so contentious. > Which governments are you referring to? Any that has an intelligence service. (And probably most others too.) > And how are they doing this? They get the data from breaches like this or otherwise purchased from services like this. > And how do you know of this? I’d suspect less that they know and more that they have a reasonable suspicion. I personally have that suspicion because 1) it’s feasible and 2) governments would be interested in the data.
- wonderwonder 3y agoThat's how they caught the golden state serial killer https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dna-from-genealogy-site-used-to-catch-suspected-golden-state-killer-1.4637726#:~:text=World-,DNA%20from%20genealogy%20site%20used%20to%20catch%20suspected%20Golden%20State,to%20find%20a%20DNA%20match https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dna-from-genealogy-site-used-t.... Also, the government keeps all DNA from people arrested (not convicted) for anything https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/your-dna-police-database-flna6c10617124 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/your-dna-police-database-...
- bayindirh 3y ago
- apwell23 3y ago> give access to Government actors, sell their databases or just have them hacked/stolen by malicious actors one of these is not like the other
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoIt’s a big club, and we ain’t in it!