If you’re wondering how some security/infosec folks could care so little about privacy & defend companies like Google & Facebook, listen up:
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You can have excellent security without any privacy. And, while harder, you can even have privacy without security. Let me explain:
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Google has excellent security. They employ the best security experts. And yet, when you use their services, you have absolutely no privacy.
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Everything you do when you use Google’s services is tracked, stored, and analysed by Google, Inc.
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All that information is kept very safe from anyone else because, like any other business, Google has an interest in keeping its assets safe.
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How about privacy without security? Now that’s harder, but possible, through obscurity. (This is not something I recommend.) An example:
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If you go out into the middle of nowhere and build a cabin, you will have privacy, even if you don’t have locks on the door (or even a door)
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(But that only works until someone discovers your cabin.)
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Pragmatically, then, we can say that lack of security can negatively impact your privacy but excellent security doesn’t imply privacy.
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To bring it all back: so why don’t some security/infosec folks care about your privacy? It’s because they’re working in security.
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And if they work for Google, Facebook, etc., what they’re tasked with securing isn’t your privacy; it’s the assets of these corporations.
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(Which is what you and your data are.) End thread.
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@aral ranting about privacy and security, over a cup of coffee. Good to see someone actually caring about this, with a passion. :) -
Yer. Anytime I find myself slipping back into Google I watch one of his videos. It soon kicks me back into shape.
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