[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Don't take digital photos that you don't want the world to see.

I don't like seeing "don't victim blame" taken as gospel. Blame isn't a simple binary thing. Every time a company is hacked we don't line up to defend their shoddy security practices even though they are a victim.

[eldaisfish]

This is a dangerous argument. There’s been a lot of public statements from the big tech firms about how data on phones is encrypted and that the devices are safe.

Resorting to “do not do X if you don’t want Y to happen” is a cop out and demonstrates a fundamental failure of technology doing what it says on the box.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

I've said in another comment that I am extremely interested to know the outcome of this since I am a Pixel owner. It is concerning but right now it's unverified.

[seoulmetro]

You're wrong. They say that when it's encrypted it will remain secure.

They don't say that when it's not encrypted it will remain secure.

Nudes are very rarely encrypted.

[giaour]

This is a really bleak way to look at digital devices and their role in the world. Should you only write things you want the world to read on a computer, and for everything else, just use pen and paper?

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

It is bleak but it's the reality that we have, not the reality we wish that we had.

[landryraccoon]

Hackernews is full of people with the skill and position to actually influence what decisions the tech world makes.

It's much less forgivable for engineers and managers that work at Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, etc to be cynical and say "yeah Tech is evil what can you do" compared to the average person, and this site is full of people who are in those positions.

[seoulmetro]

Yes. Anything you write into your computer has the potential to be shared. The same way anything you write and send in the mail has the potential to be shared.

[giaour]

And yet, if GMail published email exchanges of a protected nature between someone and their lawyer, would you just throw up your hands and say, alas, digital communication is cursed?

Some digital activity should be considered private, and violating that privacy should have legal and social consequences.

[seoulmetro]

I am already saying that digital communication is open. Emails included...

>Some digital activity should be considered private

Yeah, the ones which are mathematically proven to be private.

[na85]

Actually yes, sadly.

Even HN won't let you delete your personal comments.

[mcphage]

> Don't take digital photos that you don't want the world to see.

Gah, what a sad, terrible world we have built.