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Everyone should care about this; but as you said most people don't see the issue in practical terms. I think is our jobs as tech-savy people to put it in more p
by ivanca 12y ago
Everyone should care about this; but as you said most people don't see the issue in practical terms. I think is our jobs as tech-savy people to put it in more practical terms for them, someway the average Joe can relate to, for example:
- NSA and GCHQ are probably watching your kids naked, a lot, because exploits from webcams are very common, and they cannot know before hand if someone is using Skype to plan tewowist attacks or a video for their teenage boyfriend.
- They are watching everything related to any company, so if an NSA employee happens to have stock in a rival company, well, that's insider trading sponsored by the state.
- Blackmailing is a piece of cake, because completely normal and legal activities such as watching porn are enough to defame you.
- They want security exploits to exist (and they pay for those), because that's how the intercept your communications, the problem is, those are the same exploits tewowist and black hat hackers use against you.
You get the idea.
- netcan 12y agoTo the extent that I'm right, I don't think this is enough. You can respond to criticisms about blackmail exploits or watching your kids with layers of laws, bureaucracy and compromises. You can deny it or call it isolated incidences. To fight something like this, we need something that makes people draw a line. An uncrossable one. The main item a politician can identify with. Otherwise, this is a negotiation. One we'll lose.
- grkvlt 12y ago> Blackmailing is a piece of cake, because completely normal and legal activities such as watching porn are enough to defame you. How can you blackmail someone with their normal and legal activities? Either watching porn is abnormal, and a source of blackmail opportunities, or it's normal and it's not, surely?
- DanBC 12y agoThe UK is probably more relaxed about this than the US but I can imagine situations where people watching legal[1] porn could come under sever pressure at work because of it. Scout masters watching gay porn; headmasters watching legal but "teen" porn; teachers watching BDSM; etc - these are all people doing something legal that has no impact on their job but who would face severe pressure at work, and may well lose their job inder a variety of "disrepute" clauses. [1] the legal situation in the UK for porn is not straightforward.