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I remember the time, about 6 or 7 years ago when I've asked in front of the whole class to the associate professor of the security course, whether building a te
by IlPeach 13y ago
I remember the time, about 6 or 7 years ago when I've asked in front of the whole class to the associate professor of the security course, whether building a text messages encryption app would have been a good idea as project for the course. The answer was a smickering "only a drug dealer would be interested in such a thing".
oh man, that hurt... if I only knew a valid point against the "I've got nothing to hide" argument as I do now...
- e40 13y agoI've got nothing to hide Got a handy link to that or similar arguments?
- andy_boot 13y agoI would tell anyone to watch the 'Lives of Others' - great film about how surveillance can be abused.
- networked 13y agoHow about something like this for the grandparent's case: "In some countries people can be persecuted for their religious beliefs, politics or sexuality. Their text messages could potentially reveal all of the above to the government and/or someone listening in on GSM traffic [1]. Those people could use an SMS encryption app to provide them with plausible deniability or, should their local law doesn't have that notion, at least help them avoid automatic keyword detection." [1] See, e.g., http://www.ti.bfh.ch/uploads/media/19_Vadym_Uvin.pdf http://www.ti.bfh.ch/uploads/media/19_Vadym_Uvin.pdf.
- tripzilch 13y agoI keep this one bookmarked, for exactly that reason: Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461 http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127... The problem seems to be, to me it's so obvious that it matters even if you have "nothing to hide", that whenever someone confronts me with that argument I'm a bit dumbfounded :)
- jcomis 13y agoYour link is broken, but this one works: http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...;
- tripzilch 13y agoFixed mine. Yours is broken in the same way :) Some weird escaping/encoding quirk going on there that seems to be caused by the trailing slash.
- IlPeach 13y agoThe essay is totally worth reading: gives probably the best definition of privacy I've seen and covers a good amount of use cases. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/07/privacy_and_the.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/07/privacy_and_th...