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>Why do people seem to suddenly care? You can't say it's because, "We have more information," because we really don't. People suddenly care about privacy? Now,
by lsc 13y ago
>Why do people seem to suddenly care? You can't say it's because, "We have more information," because we really don't. People suddenly care about privacy?
Now, I don't have my finger on the pulse of the everyman... not by a longshot. But within my own echo chamber? all those things were pretty big deals. As you said, nobody else cared, yeah. But they were a big deal to the news I read.
My question to you, is "Does anyone care about this?" I mean, I know I care, and I know my own echo chamber is all shook up, but if my "media bubble" mattered? we'd have been on IPv6 a decade ago.
So yeah. what does Fox news have to say about this? Hm. Looking, it's got something about how Ron Paul is worked up, but the other bits there seem to be about how much jailtime the whistleblower is getting. There's a neutral to positive article about what the NSA does.
Go to npr.org, for the mainstream left, and there's an opinion piece calling Obama "big brother" - so I guess that's something?
We'll see how long the stories last. But yeah... I think you are mistaking your own media bubble for the world as a whole. My guess? The average Facebook user is going to shrug and keep using facebook.
Hell, this is going to be a big deal for me (as most of my customers also live in the same media bubble or echo chamber or whatever you want to call it as I do.) - I don't have any real response, either. (I've been talking about setting up customer portals where you can see all log data I have about you... but that's hard to do well enough that I can honestly say "This is ALL the data I have about you," and it's not like I don't have a whole bunch of other work to do, and really? as a VPS provider, well, most of what I log is access to your serial console and the like. Really, everything the NSA would want would be within your VPS. Well, that and the ip -> billing data mapping, but I think you know I'm keeping that.)