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A sys admin once told me in a very drunk state that he spread a lot of backdoors through little tools that he used back in the 90s and early 2000s. Nobody care
by openiah 2y ago
A sys admin once told me in a very drunk state that he spread a lot of backdoors through little tools that he used back in the 90s and early 2000s.
Nobody cared for privacy and encryption and those who did ran leaky operating systems that were full of little tools. People basically encrypted after the fact.
After their keystrokes had been saved and or sent. After (parts of) their traffic was read on their system.
He said that's how the internet and it's users and almost all of the services and businesses were build.
You read what they do, test what they need, build what is most profitable for you and what gives you most data for future products and you constantly steer them towards it all via repeating, recursive, strategically spaced micro exposures and cunning linguistics on TV, Radio, street ads, print media, at work and of course, on the internet itself.
We build weak minds and we are proud to exploit them. He runs a bar in South East Asia, now. He became a paramedic, first.