Comment by mpyne
13 years ago
Well as far as I can tell the only additional concern we have in this case is that people might see your 1-900-HOTWINK phone sex calls, given that PRISM itself doesn't actually pull more data than the NSA was able to pull before.
And either way, it's already happening. Remember the sorority president who had her pissed-off email to her "sisters" leaked to the media? Which led to people discovering her Twitter account that showed her to be a racist?
You can't blame that one on the gub'mint; we're already living in that particular brave new world, if people don't want to acknowledge it that's their problem.
What I think will actually happen as far as societal change goes is that we will become used to the idea that people do grow up and mature and stop holding things against them that they said 20 years before.
What I think will actually happen as far as societal change goes is that we will become used to the idea that people do grow up and mature and stop holding things against them that they said 20 years before.
People should be able to say things in private yesterday (not just 20 years ago) and not have it affect them in public today.
Sure, but when did that change? The NSA, even post-Verizon and post-PRISM still can't even get a warrant to get what I said.
The FBI could get a warrant, or local law enforcement, but that was true in 2012, and 2001, and 1999, and 1983 and 1961 and earlier. And while I understand "Law & Order" is just TV, it's pretty amazing what law enforcement can convince third parties to voluntarily let them see, and has been for decades as well.
Ever since I figured out crypto was a thing I knew to use PGP/GPG for things that had to be secret and to not trust the rest to remain secret forever. Certainly I wouldn't trust Twitter or Facebook, have you ever seen /r/cringepics??
Of course back then I wasn't worried about the government, I was worried about Mallory, but I'm still just as worried about Mallory as I was before.