Thread: Just discovered a breach of security with google
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TheoX is offline TheoX
2013-07-16 , 12:59
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#25
Originally Posted by Wikiwide View Post
First, I have full right to hide my own private activities from anybody and everybody. I don't want CIA digging through my web-activity just because most of Internet traffic goes, one way or another, through their country.

Second, I am an adult, not a child, even though I sometimes wish I could have returned to the past, 50-100 years earlier. Also, I expect that everybody has kept secrets from parents, at one stage or another, if only to surprise them with a gift for a celebration - there is no shame in keeping secrets, in having privacy. And there are much more interesting things to do than break laws just for the sake of rule-breaking.

Best wishes.
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Per aspera ad astra...
Wiki, I understand your point of view, but look at it this way, you can use whatever, SSL, DDG, TOR, and if CIA or whatever other organizations like this want to track you, they can! Is it surprising that even now some TOR (which is supposed to be the most secure internet browsing) exit points can be detected and traced back to you? If normal people can do that, think about since when the CIA can d that.

The second point of view I would like you to think about is this: Ok, you have the right to hide every personal information you want, and you hide it maybe from some of your friends (who can maybe use that against you), from your family (which can spoil a surprise), from your girlfriend (which can show her that you were cheating - i'm joking of course). So in addition, you hide info from the circle of friends around you. Now, CIA gets all that data, and a unknown agent from USA reads it, he don't know you, you have no relation with him/her, so why even bother caring that an unknown person can see what you are using your internet for. You are not a corrupt politician, you are not part of the mafia, you are nothing to be a headline for the CIA to track you in particular, you are just a user, one user out of several millions that get trough those CIA filters... So WHY EVEN CARE?