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.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.That I understand the technology and they do not, seems to keep them from taking the issue seriously.