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@Em0nM4stodon I hate the "Do you have anything to hide?" line. My life shouldn't be open to inspection just "in case".

5 Jun 2023 at 19:10 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.sideslip.social
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tbonenina

@aut @Em0nM4stodon my response to that one is "Do you close the door to a public bathroom stall? Are you doing something 'wrong' behind a closed door? Or is privacy just a valid, human need?'

5 Jun 2023 at 19:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Em :official_verified:

@t60n3 @aut This is always an excellent analogy! 👍

5 Jun 2023 at 19:26 | Open on infosec.exchange
Coo-Ops

@t60n3 @aut @Em0nM4stodon on this, if you haven't read up about it you should search "Jeremy Bentham panopticon" it is a good read. The gist of it is that prison inmates can be observed by a single guard without the inmates knowing they were being watched. The presence of the panopticon was said to have changed prisoner behaviour because they knew they could be watched at any moment, even without a guard present at all. Truly shocking when you consider that is happening in present day with backdoors and encryption busting.

@t60n3 @aut @Em0nM4stodon on this, if you haven't read up about it you should search "Jeremy Bentham panopticon" it is a good read. The gist of it is that prison inmates can be observed by a single guard without the inmates knowing they were being watched. The presence of the panopticon was said to have changed prisoner behaviour because they knew they could be watched at any moment, even without a guard present at all. Truly shocking when you consider that is happening in present day with backdoors...

6 Jun 2023 at 7:08 | Open on infosec.exchange
tbonenina

@cooopsspace @aut @Em0nM4stodon Thanks for the recommendation! It's a bit of a straw man argument, but when discussing privacy I sometimes raise the observer effect in physics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer to get folx thinking about how just the concept of being watched could have a physical reaction. Privacy and the right to not be observed may be larger and more complex than being perceived as doing something 'wrong' in a social/behavioural sense.

6 Jun 2023 at 13:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Daniel Taylor

@aut @Em0nM4stodon I'd like an opportunity to challenge anyone saying that seriously on why they wear pants.

5 Jun 2023 at 19:27 | Open on infosec.exchange
Em :official_verified:

@RandomDamage @aut Indeed. And, arguably, there are even more reasons to protect one's personal data with solid end-to-end encryption than to be wearing pants.

5 Jun 2023 at 19:29 | Open on infosec.exchange
meejah

@aut @Em0nM4stodon People shut up about that stupid line pretty fast if you offer to put the entire contents of their phone online for free...
(Zero people have taken me up on this offer ;)

6 Jun 2023 at 0:08 | Open on mastodon.social
Rama

@aut @Em0nM4stodon
— Do you have anything to hide?
— Yes, and I like to all it "my private life"

6 Jun 2023 at 10:30 | Open on mastodon.art
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