Comment by banku_brougham
2 months ago
I would figure state actors don’t need to go through the trouble of a browser extension. But, yeah.
2 months ago
I would figure state actors don’t need to go through the trouble of a browser extension. But, yeah.
I'm not a spy so I don't know, but surely in most scenarios it's a lot easier to just ask someone for some data than it is hack/steal it. 25 years of social media has shown that people really don't care about what they do with their data.
Wasn't there a comment on this phenomenon along the lines "we were so afraid of 1984 but what we really got was Brave New World"?
The apathy of the oppressed is a core theme of 1984.
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Why wouldn't they? It isn't that you need to, just that obviously you would. You engage with the extension owners by sending an email from a director of a data company instead of as a captain of some military operation. The hit rate is going to be much higher with one of the strategies.
Huh? Of course they would: It's way less work than defeating TLS/SSL encryption or hacking into a bunch of different servers.
Bonus points if the government agency can leave most of the work to an ostensibly separate private company, while maintaining a "mutual understanding" of government favors for access.