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🎶 Workin' on my night cheese! 🎶

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https://youtu.be/4fv_gCn1CUU

@Em0nM4stodon So, businesses - why do you use VPNs and all that encryption? Do you have anything to hide?

Oh, look at that, they do. They have lots of stuff they want to hide. They want to hide their CEO's correspondence with politicians, and their meetings with lobbyists, and their sales forecasts, and their failed experiments, and so on.

So, Senator, why do you use "parliamentary privilege"? What do you have to hide?

Oh, look at that, they have stuff to hide too. They don't want their houses to be found, or their meetings with corporations to be known, or their donations, and so on.

Privacy is a human right, but funnily enough corporations and politicians don't really want their own privacy to be questioned.

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Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

-- Edward Snowden

@Em0nM4stodon Also, it's annoying that people using the "what do you have to hide" argument seem to think the only people looking will be reasonable, fair-minded people understanding of all situational context etc.

Not people on fishing expeditions to find something, anything illegal or embarrassing to get you on because they're mad you said something mean about them/embarrassed their institution/etc.

Not literal stalkers and harassers.

Not someone who actually *is* perhaps well-meaning but who reads the wrong meaning into hyperbole or an inside joke, or who assumes you must have first-hand experience or plans because of fiction or lyrics

Not thousands of people who interpret your worst moment of being triggered and losing it at a troll or a creep as defining you, forever, beyond anything else, etc.

@Em0nM4stodon If you’re hiding the amount of cheese in your fridge I can already assume the answer is “none/not enough” ;)

And strong yes to this!

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Some people in France have been charged of "terrorrist association" because they have Linux installed on their PCs, with storage encryption, and use ciphered communication means (Signal, etc).

Distopian, yes, sad, yes, but a true story.

@Em0nM4stodon inb4 having nothing to be guilty of and having nothing to hide aren't the same thing

if that was the case, then we would all be naked/wearing transpartent clothes in houses of glass...

@Em0nM4stodon I am all for end to end encryption and privacy as a fundamental right which should be provided by default.

Unfortunately, in the USA, under CALEA and the PATRIOT Act, anything which has a phone number is legislatively subject to warrantless wiretapping, Signal is no exception. I can cite at least one court transcript with Signal logs provided as evidence.

In other words: Signal is not providing you the privacy they are telling you they provide. I am not the only individual to call them out on their BS either.

@Em0nM4stodon Things are turning back to Pre-WWII and WWII ...
We all forgot one thing at someone eyes, we might not be perfect, sharing privacy or neglect privacy will lead to what happen in the past... witch hunt , character assassination , etc etc.
Unfortunalty we do not learn with our errors, we tend to recycle the bad things also from the past ...

Envy is a dangerous weapon ...

@Em0nM4stodon Very well said. Privacy is indeed a human right.

"Do you have anything to hide?" is a question I have never understood. Of course people are gonna have stuff to hide, specifically private and personal information that they want to keep private, to avoid being hacked or doxxed.

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A classic "none of your damn business" situation

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The more i read it and I think ...

NOBODY should have a "main password" - BAD IDEA