Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Dissidents
Do other HN readers find themselves on the receiving end of ridicule by their fam & friends for taking this privacy stuff seriously? I'm constantly being told I'm unreasonably worried, borderline tin-hat wearing paranoid, for being concerned by the surveillance capabilities built into our modern consumer electronics which are available to governments and business alike.<p>But if someone my parents know have their identity stolen by stealing credit card bills and applications from their mailbox and then find themselves on the hook for $30,000 in fraudulent charges, well then it's all my parents talk about for the next 2 days.<p>That I understand the technology and they do not, seems to keep them from taking the issue seriously.