I really suggest watching the whole thing, it&#x27;s quite eye opening. The most irritating parts are when the portly speaker genially describes how they read Reddit and Hackernews in an attempt to buy off and shut-down startups which might threaten their ability to collect intelligence. Peoples lives are inevitably ruined by anti-progress paranoia, and tools which could make all of us more secure from bad actors are intentionally sunk.<p>These people are your enemies, and they are chuckling to each other how easy you are to manipulate. You, on HN.