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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:21:31 -0300
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kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

> Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>>Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> writes:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>> Note my use of "friends" not friends.  When I asked why I was told
>>> that what I don't know can't hurt me.
>>
>>Speechless.
>
> This is pretty typical of Americans today, I think.  If you talk about
> privacy, they say they have nothing to hide and accuse you of being 
> suspicious.

I've noticed that some people say this because they really don't think
much about this.  It's a bit of ignorance perhaps; but not always a
hopeless ignorance.  We are thinkers in these matters; most people are
not.  

For instance, I've seen many intelligent people say things like---``a
site like YouTube shouldn't let every video be posted; some videos are
outrageous''.  (And, indeed, YouTube doesn't let every video be posted.)
They can't quite see that freedom of expression is something that's
all-or-nothing.  This is easy to see for people who think about such
matters for a long time.