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Does it bother you that there are government trojans that can observe your online activities and do you take precautions (for example by not having a facebook account, not using google as a search engine, etc)?
| I worry about being surveyed and take precautions | 33 | |
| I don't mind and do whatever online | 20 |
To an extent that would worry me. It's easy to imagine a greasy old man sitting half-naked in a darkened room literally reading all your emails on behalf of the government, but really it's not likely that any human eyes would actually read anything you do in private which takes a huge amount of the disturbing nature out of the argument for me.
That doesn't mean it isn't at all worrying. I always apply the rule of "if it's not okay in real life, it's not okay online either". If the government placed millions of secret microphones on streets and in people's homes to record their private conversations in real life, even if it never intended to listen to them, that would be wrong and illegal and it would scare me. If that analogy holds true for the online world (I honestly don't know if it holds true or not, I don't know much about this issue) then yes, it worries me.
In any case, do I take any precautions? Nope.
All these "I only care about porn" comments make it sound like you're all a bunch of 50 year old chatroulette type guys. How about them being able to see how much money you have, who your friends are, where you work, what medical issues you have, what strengths& weaknesses you have, etc while you know NOTHING about the people on the other side who are prying into your private info?
Why would they care about these things? That's why government surveillance does not bother me (TO A POINT) because I have nothing that the government would be interested in.. Why do they care who my friends are? It's not my intention to terrorize America or ambush the government.
I don't know. I just think it sucks that because some people use the internet for crimes like distributing child porn or whatever that I should have to pay for it by giving up my privacy. And that trojan owners could then abuse me but that's another story (not government related)
They can watch for all I care, on the condition they pay for my internet and give free access to porn.
I don't do anything that would interest them anyway, but I still take precautions.
I don't have facebook, I'm logged into my fake GMail, All my HDDs are encrypted with the strongest encryption there is.
They can monitor me all they want, but since they're aiming to do it without my consent, I'll make it as difficult as possible.
I don't agree with it but I also don't give a shit. There are way too many people in society for them to be reading everything I do or to even care what I do. Even if they do it doesn't effect me.
It's just a way for them to annihilate everyone, one by one. They track your movements find out who you are kill you then clone you, then they'll make soilders create armies of machines that will destroy planet earth. They plan to eradicate the entire human race because they themselves are machines.
It's a conspiracy everything all of it. Trust no one.
I don't give a crap. It's good so they can preemptively stop terrorists and anti-capitalists etc. I'd only worry if they ruled porn illegal lol.
I tend to want to take those precautions you mentioned. My 'give-a-fuck' meter is too low for me to make that much effort though... I'm not important enough for anything I say to really be of any importance to somebody important anyway though. I think....