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Akira

The next time I have a talk about privacy with someone, and I get the classic "I have nothing to hide" talking point, I'm just gonna straight up ask for their email password.

I'll do it.

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Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈

@MissAkira I actually should probably publish some mailboxes for transparency reasons. But if people mail sensitive information to them that's bad, so it needs auditing and approval.

maru

@MissAkira or ask how much they’ve got on their bank account and do they have savings too plus what’s their annual income by the way? And what is their preferred sex position?
:)

Antoine-Frédéric
@MissAkira This isn't how mass surveillance works. Ask them about their 10 last purchases. Ask for the tickets. There are tons of comments to make.

For example Twitter has probably made a great use of tracking links before implementing the retweet button – in the most user-hostile way.
dch

@MissAkira and for good luck, throw in their last tax statement, voting records, doctors report, sexual partners, blood type, credit card details, fingerprints and copies of passport, ID cards and any investments they may have made. Never found anybody who stuck to their point of view after that list.

LovesTha🥧

@dch @MissAkira or more simply: their email password.

It typically gives access to most of that.

dch

@LovesTha totally agree from a technical perspective, but the point is to illustrate to people what privacy really means not just those mems I mailed to my friends @MissAkira

LovesTha🥧

@MissAkira another point against 'nothing to hide' is that without secrets verifying identity at distance is very hard.

Killab33z O.G.

@MissAkira great idea! I'm going to do that next time this comes up too ^_^

Michael Perry

@MissAkira you can have mine. Iforgot. Hope it helps 😉

G (Nap God)

@MissAkira @randomgeek I usually ask for their credit card number but this could possibly work better

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