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by 1morepassword 13y ago
> It's okay if I agree to it. That's the typical fallacy. If Chinese factory worker agrees to be exploited in conditions close to slavery doesn't mean that that kind of exploitation is "okay". Tempting people for
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
Privacy wasn't lost to technology, nor was it given away voluntarily, at least not consciously. It was stolen by greedy corporations. Governments came second, they mostly just leverage the work of said corporations. This is not a sig
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
I love it. An IRS audit based on trawling public data is more likely to wake up the moronic "I've got nothing to hide" clowns than any total surveillance by the NSA or the massive cyberstalking by Facebook, Google e.a.
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
We're living in 2013, and this is a tech forum, so let's get real: advertising is about tracking, about total surveillance, not sticking a logo on a bus. That's what Google does, that's what Google's motives are. Ev
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
Not just anonymous users. Even as a logged-in user with set preferences Google constantly knows better than you which language you want. "Oh, so you did a local search for hardware stores in insert-country-here ? Well, than let's
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
Direct access is only the "most extreme possible interpretation" to a technocrat. For all ordinary people, i.e., most of the world outside HN, the "access" part is the element that constitutes the scandal. "Direct&q
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
And one by one those who go into public service sell out and fail to change anything. They become corrupted cogs in a corrupted machine. Changing policy from the inside does not happen . Been there, done that, walked away from it. I'v
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
The scary word here is "probably", because the government consistently refuses to release that data. Although I'm fairly confident we're gonna win the legal and political battle over that issue in time. The Dutch governm
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
How do you know this if you haven't physically used it? And why on earth do people assume Apple hasn't thoroughly tested this? They may get many things wrong, but it's insane to thing they overlooked that part.
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
How would you call it there were almost half a million fully armed German troops stationed in the US? A great success for US board of tourism?
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
What's the "utterly implausible" part? In the past we've had verified incidents of people being refused entry because of things posted on for instance public Twitter feeds. So we know that the monitoring of social media,
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
> mistrust of the government has extended to this industry I'm sorry, are we now taking the opportunity to blame big evil government for this? The mistrust of this industry has always existed as a completely separate issue due to th
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
Which is technically illegal in most countries, storing government information on foreign systems. Up until now, it may have been tolerated as long as it didn't concern obviously sensitive information, but you can expect a total ban in
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
Dutch press reported very well... on Merkel's reaction. Our own prime minister however pretends nothing is wrong, despite subsequent leaking from his own intelligence service. And with a wonderful sense of irony he showed up few hours
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
I hate to defend the Telegraaf, but comparing the Sun to the Telegraaf is like comparing hardcore porn to the SI swimsuit edition. Especially when it comes to issues related to security and intelligence, Telegraaf does some serious investig
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
That's not a very representative sample. Restaurants tends to be better in Germany. And in both countries, prices are much higher and service much worse than in the US, because waiting staff doesn't depend on tips.
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
This is pretty much a public secret, including the location (there aren't that many potential secure locations in NL). I vaguely remember protesting against this back in the eighties.
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
That's already been a common discussion for many years. The business world outside the US is very much aware of the problem. What we're likely to see now is article discussing how to get out of the US cloud, because it has now shi
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
The damage was already done well before that. Individuals may not care that much (so Facebook is relatively safe), but businesses and governments have already been well aware that storing their data in US-run services is a bad idea, and in
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
Yes. Violating peoples privacy for greed and profit alone. But that would exclude a lot more companies, many of which employ a lot of regular HN-users. Anything can be rationalized for a paycheck. And although I've managed to steer cle
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
The hood? How about just the cinema? Or stay at home altogether and watch television.
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
Which countries are you talking about? No Western country I know of has an even remotely similar policy to the US on drugs. Most of them don't have >99% white population either btw.
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
I agree that the one of the USA's greatest strengths is in how it welcomes immigrants. However, when it comes to actually welcoming immigrants, there are many (Western) countries where it's easier to immigrate to these days th
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
It's bullshit blaming the EU, given that it's countries like the UK, Ireland e.a. that are pushing for all of this on order to serve their great friends the US. It's the EU that stands between us and corrupt national governme
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
Boycotting US customers should be easy. After all, US companies have perfected the art of boycotting non-US customers... Anyway, boycotting US cloud tech is not that hard, albeit a bit inconvenient in some cases. In many cases putting data
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
No, there's really nothing suspicious about the almost instant complete mass denial. It sometimes takes months for these companies to come up with a full public statement on any privacy scandal. The process of getting hold of the people w
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
> People need jobs to provide for themselves and their family. That may apply to the administrative staff, or people in sales and marketing. Maybe even managers. But not to the developers that had options and chose money over ethics. It
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by 1morepassword 13y ago
Take one look at that graphic and tell me that there is such a thing as "Europe", other than as a continent on a map.