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I've seen numerous stories recently that boil down to people being surprised that cloud hosted products "spy" on you. If you're sending the data to someone els
by api 3y ago
I've seen numerous stories recently that boil down to people being surprised that cloud hosted products "spy" on you.
If you're sending the data to someone else's computer and it's not encrypted, you're.... sending the data to someone else's computer.
Do people not understand this?
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoMy wife teaches English. She uses Google docs revision history to spy on her students writing (and occasionally to recover it in the event of a disaster). So if it's plagiarized, she can see the moment where they pasted the plagiarized version. They apparently have no idea. So yeah, I think that people legit don't understand. The gap between tech literate and hacker is problematically large.
- api 3y agoI increasingly feel like a member of some kind of high priest or scribe class in a feudal society, and I don't like it. I don't like where this is going. It'll either end in a dark cyberpunk total surveillance and mass manipulation state or a kind of Butlerian Jihad where people reject networked cybernetic systems en masse. Maybe the first happens followed by the second.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoAgreed. I think we need to be a bit more conscious of whose agenda we're willing to further with our work. I'd rather retire of unremarkable means in a functioning society than be wealthy in a dystopia of my own making.