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Just you wait for governments to require platforms to only accept gov-signed keys. I was sceptical about something-you-own auth vs. something-you-know auth fro
by throwawayqqq11 3y ago
Just you wait for governments to require platforms to only accept gov-signed keys.
I was sceptical about something-you-own auth vs. something-you-know auth from the beginning and recieved backlash from my tech peers for it. I hate to be able to go "told you so" on this one. Lets hope im wrong about the government involvement, but i dont think i will.
- DyslexicAtheist 3y agonot to diminish your point, but since at decade or so I'm a more worried about corporate surveillance capitalism than I'm about government surveillance.
- pcthrowaway 3y agoI mean, same, but only because I realized a new undesirable thing was becoming a tacit reality that we'd have to accept on top of already undesirable thing
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoWith a bit of a change, you can mostly avoid most of those corporations... you lose out on some tech goodies, but you can still live quite normally. You cannot avoid the government.
- thejohnconway 3y agoYou can’t avoid these corporations if you want to remain active on the internet. They keep shadow profiles. They sell and share your data from one service to another (I stoped using Facebook for example, but Netflix shared its watch data with Facebook.) I don’t think it’s possible to avoid them. Confuse them maybe.
- spacebanana7 3y agoWhy? Governments can do so much harm by incarcerating, fining or even killing you. Don't get me wrong - corporate surveillance can be very annoying, especially in insurance / credit scoring / price discrimination etc, but it seems a comparatively lesser danger.
- bonton89 3y agoProbably because governments can just buy the corporate surveillance results, bypassing any shoddy protections that even exist completely. So corporate surveillance is government surveillance.