I only heard about it this week. Then saw a former colleague post about it yesterday. Feels like its only just now breaking into mainstream tech awareness, I'm sure most of my colleagues haven't heard of it.
Well, that's just it. Those extentitential risks aren't even proven yet.
Meanwhile, threats to resources are already being felt today. "just overhaul our infrastructure" isn't an actionable solution that will magically fix things today or next week. Even if these don't end up being big problems in the grand scheme of things doesn't mean they aren't problems now.
It's done when there is no need to improve it anymore. But you can still want to improve it.
A can opener from 100 years ago will open today's cans just fine. Yes, enthusiasts still make improvements; you can design ones that open cans easier, or ones that are cheaper to make (especially if you're in the business of making can openers).
But the main function (opening cans) has not changed.
I'll always remember - when I was first learning about it, one of the interesting counter-arguments to ignoring privacy was "what if the Nazis come back, would you want them to have your data?". I suppose there's some debate these days, but hostile governments seem a lot closer than they were 10-15 years ago.
Will this make people care? Probably not, but you never know.
Even in the best of times. Why widen your attack surface unnecessarily? Do you tell people your passwords and PINs at parties?
What governments and corporations (and plenty of bad actors in the FOSS world) have done is make this the default; made it easy to mindlessly hand people your privacy without even knowing. Opt-out, if you know the setting exists, and can find it.
They do, on paper, but many countries hardly enforce them. For example, the EU has more caveats to its section-1201-style insanity; China simply doesn't care at all. These copyright treaties are useless in practice and harmful because they ossify a bad system.
Nope, never heard of it. Is it a rock worth living under?
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