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

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:
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I also believe that second hand exposure is less than first hand
exposure. A small comfort as well.

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A lot better.  These ``friends'' are not people who understand what
we're talking about here.  If you start explaining why they shouldn't
put your picture there and so on, it will really be a lot of work.  And
you might end up losing these friends because, you know, people have
little tolerance for politics.
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People wanna have fun.  Eat, drink, play video games, watch TV, ... They
get fed up with political stuff---it's hard to understand and it all
seems to boil down to same thing over and over again.
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But, yeah, we're all probably better off away from these ``friends''.
We just need to face our loneliness, which is healhty.

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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.

Same here!  I ``lost'' many.

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.

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. :)

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.

Nice to hear you run your own business.

Last, but not least, let us not forget that friends is not a static
concept, there are always plenty of ways to meet new friends in life
if one feels the need and has the motivation. =)

Exactly.