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[–] [email protected] 300 points 11 months ago (23 children)
[–] [email protected] 106 points 11 months ago (17 children)

Right? It's kinda nuts how much this quixotic prepper-style power fantasy permeates some parts of the Internet. Hell, even that strip is conceding the basic point that there will be a cabal of evil people digging for all their super-important secret files at some point.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

Kinda makes you wonder what's on their drive that they're so concerned about being uncovered. I'm all for privacy as a right, but people don't usually go balls to the wall on their computer security just to protect cat memes or tax documents. People won't even assume just regular porn stuff. People will assume terrorist plots or sex crimes or stolen classified stuff. Idk, if my NSA agent cares enough to break basic security just to find out my porn search history, then I'm just thinking that that's wasted tax dollars. I'm not that interesting.

Edit: I'm not saying don't do simple encryption, I'm saying that putting up ten barriers and having paid services and using multiple vpns has drawbacks of cost and performance, so what are the odds that somebody would go to all the trouble for data that nobody would care about. If you saw a giant vault in somebody's basement, you would assume there's something interesting in there.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago

That was a long walk for a short drink of "I've got nothing to hide."

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