Comment by 2OEH8eoCRo0
2 years ago
It's important but what do we do about it?
You're using the internet afterall which isn't your network- it's someone else's! When you send a packet there is a header w/ information required for routing. Some call this the "outside of the envelope" if using the mail analogy. We can pass the buck by using a VPN but this also adds a VPN org that we need to trust. On the other hand, it's not your network! Why do you think you have a right to absolute secrecy and anonymity on someone else's network?
So every person in the world should build his own "network"?
No, it's just a case of facing reality. The internet is built by other people and we have to trust (or not) that they are going to honor the responsibility that entails, from security to ethics. The internet is also funded by learning as much as possible about users in general so using the internet is accepting that you will be tracked. Increasing personal security is good, but no silver bullet.
If with that you mean that users should be aware of the risks ok, if that they should accept them as inevitable no.
What's funded by tracking as much as possible is the current perverse part of internet, it definitely wasn't always like that and doesn't need to be.
I hope that that perspective comes from someone that hasn't lived anything before Facebook.
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