Poll 2014-06-16 As a result of recent (Snowden, etc.) security revelations, I am:
Poll
As a result of recent (Snowden, etc.) security revelations, I am:
Radically altering what I do online
1 vote (5%)
Seriously altering what I do online
5 votes (24%)
Making only minor changes to what I do online
5 votes (24%)
Making no changes at all to what I do online
9 votes (43%)
Who's Snowden?
1 vote (5%)
Reply 8 comments

Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 3, Insightful)

by koen@pipedot.org on 2014-06-16 10:19 (#23Z)

(1) The Snowden revelations informed the public at large what is going on. We (formers readers of /. and I suppose current readers of |. as well) knew already in general what was going on, Snowden merely confirmed what we knew and provided more details.

(2) If we start to self-censor, they win.

Re: Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-16 10:49 (#240)

You're probably better informed than I was. I consider reasonably tech savvy, but I didn't understand - or even suspect - the scale of the surveillance state. Things like intercepts at cross-continent cables, prying open the content of unencrypted data going among data centers, and the like. I was astonished.

I was never on Facebook, post only non-personal stuff to G+ (and am seriously reconsidering Android and Google's ecosystem entirely), and no longer entrust PGP encryption since we now know it's hackable. I'm tempted to go back to POP mail and take all my mail offline. I'm more depressed than ever.

Re: Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-16 16:14 (#244)

I always thought that their incompetence was protecting me.

There may also be some offline changes as well. I know at least one person who is seriously considering moving to a different continent and this is a contributing factor in that.

Re: Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-16 17:13 (#247)

I'm trying to think of which continent would make a difference. Nothing comes to mind. Antarctica, maybe. The trick is to have no online presence at all, which of course is hard.

Re: Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-16 17:29 (#248)

I never said it was sound logic. I think the rationale is less attention would be paid to them, but I think the opposite would happen.

Re: Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-19 06:24 (#263)

Actually a lot of companies used to use US based cloud services. I know a lot of companies that pull back to in-house solutions or at least cloud services based in their own country. Pre Snowden everyone speculated if your data is secure in the cloud, now you know it is used for industrial espionage on a massive scale. We don't trust anything US anymore.

As a result I am: Not Logging In To Web Sites To Answer Polls (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-16 14:18 (#243)

Pseudoanonymity is very slightly better than nothing, if only in a warm fuzzies way.

I was modestly paranoid before, but the revelations did slightly shock me.

Snowden? (Score: 1)

by hartree@pipedot.org on 2014-06-22 21:42 (#27W)

Snowden? Wasn't he the guy who spilled his guts to Yossarian?