sleepundertheleavesMar 7

The banality of surveillance | On an internet where everything is tracked, our privacy is maintained mainly because our data is too boring and time consuming to sort through. But AIs don't get bored.

https://infosec.pub/post/43076069

The banality of surveillance | On an internet where everything is tracked, our privacy is maintained mainly because our data is too boring and time consuming to sort through. But AIs don't get bored. - Infosec.Pub

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Show threadAA5B

This was likely the case before ai as well. Collect the data, aggregate the data, we’ll find uses for it later.

I actually had this conversation with a startup company in the 2000’s. Their user profile forms were a mess so they were looking for help to fix the, and secure the data. But the root cause is they were collecting a ton of unnecessary data with no validation, verifiability, or constraints

Me: why are you collecting all this data?

Them: we might need it later

Me: so you don’t have a use now and you’re not making any effort to make the data clean enough to be useful. The best fix is to just stop collecting most of this

Them: no

Mar 7 at 4:51pmWeb
Show threadkungenMar 8
That’s also why the NSA and such stores sooo much encrypted data. They most likely don’t have the power to break it yet, but they will, and/or utilize when flaws are found.