tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post2115427559906467958..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: "Piggy Bank"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-75966243705646177902016-02-26T11:57:46.017-06:002016-02-26T11:57:46.017-06:00The on-line privacy argument now applies to the ce...The on-line privacy argument now applies to the cell phone privacy argument: if my cell phone contains information so valuable to me even in death it must not be revealed, then what am I doing carrying the thing around with me?<br /><br />If I forget my Apple password, my phone (no, I don't have an iPhone, but stay with me) will eat my valuable data which I don't want anyone else to read (which presumably would happen if I lost my phone. If hackers can access my phone from China, maybe I don't want any data on it at all.). <br /><br />But if I use one password for everything (making it hard to forget), I've defeated the purpose of having passwords, because I've basically put all my "valuables" on one key, and anyone who gets that key gets me.<br /><br />So the solution is to back Apple in its fight with the FBI?Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-7597961187292147452016-02-26T11:36:20.841-06:002016-02-26T11:36:20.841-06:00The idea that there is any, real privacy protectio...The idea that there is any, real privacy protection online is a fantasy that corporations like Apple promote as part of their branding. Back during the Snowden-Greenwald-Poitras wars the point that e-mails and other communications passed through servers in countries without any intention of being held to the romantic view of privacy held here never got addressed. <br /><br />Anyone who doesn't figure that lots of what they're told is secure is vulnerable to governments, corporations, gangsters (in the rare cases when there is a distinction to be made) are chumps. <br /><br />There is a way to have secure privacy, that's to keep it off line and out of the hands of people who will put it online. These days unless you are really careful and scrupulous in doing that, you're living in a fantasy land if you think you can depend on that. I stopped sharing family pictures with people, even the ones who promised not to post them online because they don't take the privacy of the people in the pictures seriously. And I'll bet they'd be the first people to get up on their high horse about protecting the posthumous privacy of mass murderers. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-79761558841736644402016-02-26T11:36:13.376-06:002016-02-26T11:36:13.376-06:00The idea that there is any, real privacy protectio...The idea that there is any, real privacy protection online is a fantasy that corporations like Apple promote as part of their branding. Back during the Snowden-Greenwald-Poitras wars the point that e-mails and other communications passed through servers in countries without any intention of being held to the romantic view of privacy held here never got addressed. <br /><br />Anyone who doesn't figure that lots of what they're told is secure is vulnerable to governments, corporations, gangsters (in the rare cases when there is a distinction to be made) are chumps. <br /><br />There is a way to have secure privacy, that's to keep it off line and out of the hands of people who will put it online. These days unless you are really careful and scrupulous in doing that, you're living in a fantasy land if you think you can depend on that. I stopped sharing family pictures with people, even the ones who promised not to post them online because they don't take the privacy of the people in the pictures seriously. And I'll bet they'd be the first people to get up on their high horse about protecting the posthumous privacy of mass murderers. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com