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by one_more_q
1448 days ago
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For a regular user the “petty actors” as you call them are actually scarier. Who wants to have their hard disk encrypted and pay $$$. The “actually scary stuff” is extremely important, should definitely worked on and improved. It’s important to advocate for that and educate the common user. But in my opinion for the regular user, this is not an immediate problem. |
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They seem scarier. In reality it's not so clear what is the bigger threat. Many got a taste of this with COVID restrictions, but that is clearly tame to what would be possible with the information that was already gathered or if they had even more info about you.
> But in my opinion for the regular user, this is not an immediate problem.
At least not as obvious and many do not seem interested in privacy. Not sure if they are very afraid of being robbed, but it is a more tangible threat. One can only see what mass collection of sensitive information can lead to when looking at (relatively recent) history.* And it is as easy as ever to create lists of whatever needs to be erased by whoever can command this.
*: i.e. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Liste (can't find the English article on Wiki)