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0 pointsstephengillie13y ago0 comments

Given the choice between keeping their anonymity and farmvilling with friends, most people will choose the latter. Especially since most people believe "Obscurity" to still be a valid security technique.

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w1ntermute13y ago· 2 in thread

Even worse is the argument that it's OK for the government to spy on people because they personally "have nothing to hide". I hear this argument with astonishing regularity from otherwise highly educated individuals.

aaronblohowiak13y ago

People forget McCarthyism; I am fine if this administration has access to my cell phone records, but I would not be fine if the red scare happened again. It is hard to take away power from government once it is considered "settled law".

goodcanadian13y ago

I am not old enough to state this with confidence, but I strongly suspect that a large minority, if not the majority, of people were in favour of McCarthyism in order to root out those awful communists. People are surprisingly unimaginative and just don't see how it could be turned on them.

dmorgan13y ago

>Given the choice between keeping their anonymity and farmvilling with friends, most people will choose the latter.

And most people WONT have a problem caused by choosing the latter.

It's the few people, people who probably wouldn't chose it in the first place, that would get affected.

People like the future Martin Luther Kings and Malcom Xs, Joe Hill, Jimmy Hoffa, victims of the McCarthy persecution, the EFF, whistleblowers, anti-war protesters, OWS, etc etc.

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