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Your line of thinking hinges on an optimistic view: "As long as X doesn't happen, we're fine". But what will you do when X does happen? You'll be completely unp

Your line of thinking hinges on an optimistic view: "As long as X doesn't happen, we're fine". But what will you do when X does happen? You'll be completely unprepared for it. I prefer to take the "hope for the best, prepare for the worst" approach: if something bad were to happen, I would have a better chance of not being impacted.

imgabe 12y ago
No, my line of thinking is more like "If X happens, we're fucked regardless of whether we have privacy or not, so we need to focus on not letting X happen" If an insane genocidal dictatorship comes to power, you will be impacted, unless you're on the side of the dictators.
- mirkules 12y ago
  I'll bet you top dollar that's not what Jennifer Lawrence is thinking right now. She's not thinking "It was inevitable that someone will get my photos from iCloud". Instead, she's thinking "I should have never put my photos on iCloud in the first place". Hence the point of this thread: don't expose more information than you need to. Edit: just as I typed this, the top story details the perils of data theft, exactly the point I'm trying to get across here: https://www.nikcub.com/posts/notes-on-the-celebrity-data-theft/ https://www.nikcub.com/posts/notes-on-the-celebrity-data-the...
  - imgabe 12y ago
    This is probably going to be unpopular, but how exactly has Jennifer Lawrence come to harm from the leaked photos? So people will see the photos and...what? Fantasize about her while masturbating? I'm pretty sure that was happening already. There's no doubt some embarrassment, but that's more a result of the fact that we've all decided that people need to be embarrassed about being seen naked. In a hypothetical privacy-free world where everyone has access to nude photos of everyone else, nude photos have no power over anyone.

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Your line of thinking hinges on an optimistic view: "As long as X doesn't happen, we're fine". But what will you do when X does happen? You'll be completely unp

by mirkules 12y ago

imgabe 12y ago
No, my line of thinking is more like "If X happens, we're fucked regardless of whether we have privacy or not, so we need to focus on not letting X happen" If an insane genocidal dictatorship comes to power, you will be impacted, unless you're on the side of the dictators.
- mirkules 12y ago
  I'll bet you top dollar that's not what Jennifer Lawrence is thinking right now. She's not thinking "It was inevitable that someone will get my photos from iCloud". Instead, she's thinking "I should have never put my photos on iCloud in the first place". Hence the point of this thread: don't expose more information than you need to. Edit: just as I typed this, the top story details the perils of data theft, exactly the point I'm trying to get across here: https://www.nikcub.com/posts/notes-on-the-celebrity-data-theft/ https://www.nikcub.com/posts/notes-on-the-celebrity-data-the...
  - imgabe 12y ago
    This is probably going to be unpopular, but how exactly has Jennifer Lawrence come to harm from the leaked photos? So people will see the photos and...what? Fantasize about her while masturbating? I'm pretty sure that was happening already. There's no doubt some embarrassment, but that's more a result of the fact that we've all decided that people need to be embarrassed about being seen naked. In a hypothetical privacy-free world where everyone has access to nude photos of everyone else, nude photos have no power over anyone.