Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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Many are the "friends" I have left behind because they could not be bothered to
contact me through phone or email. Since I am not on FB, and since their only
way of interacting is through FB and whatsapp, they simply faded out of my life,
and to be honest, weren't much friends to begin with.

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Same here!  I ``lost'' many.
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The ones who remain, I call real friends, because they do bother to shoot me an
sms or an email from time to time, and likewise, I do give them a call.

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Same here and this does make me happy.  So it turns out that we've sort
of optimized life a bit and increased the security level.  We don't need
to waste time with non-friends and found some real ones.  That's a hack. :)

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Amen! Quite an efficiency hack! =D Another "security" hack I have implemented
for my father is that I have forbidden him from getting government digital ID on
his smart phone. This is very funny, because once scammers called him and told
some kind of story that ended with them asking him to confirm what ever they
wanted by opening the digital ID app (this is how most old people get scammed
where I live) and he told them that he doesn't have it, due to security
reasons...
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... the scammers sighed heavily and just hung up. =D

Lol.  If that's not a super inconvenience to your father, then I think
it's a great solution.  Over here these scams are quite a problem too.
I also do talk to my father quite a lot about such matters.  And
anything suspicious at all, he always talks to me.  In fact, I've talked
to my entire family about such things.  To always let one another know
about these events---to talk often among us.  We learn more and so we
protect ourselves more.

The reason we can be so good at handling this computing world is because
we are pretty much obsessed about it; we spend the entire day thinking
about it; reading about it; writing about it.  By talking more with our
families about these matters, they do learn more from us.  Of course, we
can't expect they'll be coworkers.  We need to take things very slowly
and only as much as they can handle it.  Then it becomes kind of fun for
them too and then they learn a bunch.

So I find this to be a hueg benefit! I am also lucky because I run my
own company, so my business partners know that if they want to reach
me, they have 2 options, email or phone, and all of them accept that.

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Nice to hear you run your own business.

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Yes, it is the best thing that has ever happened to me except for my wife. I am
truly blessed and am very thankful for it every single day. =)

Nice to hear that your wife is the best thing that ever happened to you.
I unfortunately can't yet say the same.  I'm single, although I'd love
to have little kids running around and through the house. :)  But first
I gotta find someone who I love and who loves me.

Congratulations!  I think you've nailed it.

And it's interesting that I've found you here to be one of the most
upbeat ones around here.  And I guess this explains something.  You seem
to have a healthy life.  Well done!