Do you think sometimes privacy practices of people at c/privacy or r/privacy communities are overparanoid or take things too far?
Do you think sometimes privacy practices of people at c/privacy or r/privacy communities are overparanoid or take things too far?
I've had people tell me that this is (their words, not mine): "mental illness"
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I have been thinking about this a lot recently. I live a life where OPSEC is relevant. Its something that I have had to consider always, and has been for 2 decades. Even so, I wasn't as concerned this whole time as I am these days. The fact is that technology is making it such that its no longer "im not a person of interest they wont spend resources on me" because data crunching is happening to such an extreme, on such a grand scale, that person of interest doesn't even matter. Do you exist, yes. Do you have a digital foot print, yes you do. Even if you dont do a lot online. Your metrics are being captured and being inferenced, and systems are using predictive analysis to determine what you "may" do in a given situation. Depending on who controls those systems they may decide not to give you a chance to make that choice.
Ill I can say is that there are a large number of groups that want your data, for a lot of different reasons, and none of them are for your benefit. So, are you going to let them have it, or are you going to take steps to reign in the amount of info you leave about?
I've thought a lot about this. By making the choices you do you already single handedly categorized yourself. We are under so much tech behind the scenes that any move you make puts you into an analytical box, spot how you do things here or there and you have a pattern of trade craft. With trade craft you can educatedly infer the rest with probability. Exactly how they caught Osama.
Edit: Even spoofing your moves in everyway your still going to be noticed. Hiding has long been gone. Cloaking is where we are somewhere between cloaking and multiple identities.
I will also say that what I have listed is for my known digital foot print. If you catch my drift.
You are right. It's the choice I've made. I'm decided that I would rather have the lock down because I no longer think that being anonymous means anything. It's my opinion that due to the rise and ease of apply AI/ML and computational access we are all data points. So it's no longer a matter of blending in.
TLDR, I weighed the two and chose this