I slowly creep away from anything involving data-scraping, government backdoors, mass surveillance, etc, but not because I understand the issues in any depth.
It's because I read my Terry Pratchett.
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
@LeviKornelsen as someone who understands the issues, at least a BIT more, you have chosen wisely. :)
@LeviKornelsen I'm going to use this to explain next time someone gives me grief about not being on Facebook or WhatsApp. Perfection.
@LeviKornelsen I do because it feels like the soulless destruction of humanity.
@LeviKornelsen Commander Vimes was a wise man. His boots theory also checks out.
@LeviKornelsen The behavior of any Automated Interpolation is by definition unspecified and hence anything untested is unknown.
Therefore Biden wants companies to hand over their testing plans so that the shadows they haven't probed are clearly marked.