"I have nothing to hide."

[notknown@infosec.exchange]

@Tutanota

It's not about hiding. It's about choice.

Giving over complete control of every facet of what makes me an individual to complete strangers , isn't something I would ever choose to do willingly.

Choice is what the tech industry has taken from everyone in exchange for their power and profit. Constant surveillance is only the latest layer.

[flashmobofone@mstdn.social]

@Tutanota And privacy is a basic right, not a privilege for people with nothing to hide.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Right. If I ain't got nothing to hide I ain't got no life.

At this point I think it's our psychology we want to hide the most. It's also the toughest now. If we don't, then we're fed exactly what is needed to make us think the way certain people want us to think. So if you want to think for yourself, protect your psychology and don't let people know it too well.

Don't cast your pearl before swine.

But again, if you don't care to think for yourself--if you don't like it--then ...

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@pepintheshort @Tutanota Did you offer them anything?

Someone did that to me but they offered me a free email account and I said, "Yeah, sure...whatever. Here you go."

I've heard a coke can go a long way. Give someone a Coke and then ask your ridiculous favor.

[bishopjoey@writing.exchange]

@Tutanota And louder for the folks in the back: Orwell's 1984 was a *warning* not an *instruction manual*.

And yet? Here we are.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@The_Universality @Tutanota "I have nothing to hide." ... "Why am I being arrested for having my Nixon out?"

[farbel@mas.to]

@Tutanota I personally don't care who knows any of that shit about me, but people who do care should have a choice, and that choice should be opt in, not opt out.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@pepintheshort @Tutanota but they don't have anything to hide, so I don't understand.

on what basis did they not give you the password???

[oshox@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Law enforcement's members have political and personal motivations, beyond what the law requires, so everyone has someone to hide.

[pepintheshort@ieji.de]

@crazyeddie @Tutanota sure I'll send you a voucher for a coke from Amazon if you share your password with me

[pepintheshort@ieji.de]

@falcennial @Tutanota that's a great question!

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@pepintheshort @Tutanota I don't know it

[janpaul@troet.cafe]

@Tutanota
That's what I keep telling people. The usual answer is just: "Yeah, but why should anybody be interested in this?"

Well, I don't know. But some people are. Isn't this fact enough to be concerned?

[h0nza@pix.securelab.eu]

i like the sequence:
i have nothing to hide. but that is also none of your business

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota

That's why we should own our own data and decide who gets to access it

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@crazyeddie @Tutanota What is Nixon? This is the first time I hear about this.

[d4v@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota I stopped arguing with people that says that. Because they even doesn't care if their medical history and everything gets leaked.

[rhoot@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pepintheshort @Tutanota there was a teacher on fedi some time ago (sorry, don't remember who) that said their students would often say they have nothing to hide. And when they did, they would tell them "okay good, tell the rest of the class about the last time you masturbated", and the entire class immediately got it.

[tylilbro@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota isn't "I have nothing to hide" used when someone doesn't have any evidence against them on something.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@The_Universality @Tutanota Nixon -> Richard -> Dick