"I have nothing to hide."

[ponchorebel@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota
truest fucking shit I've read the entire year, so far.

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@Tutanota Privacy is knowing that at some point some lunatic with much more power than he deserves is going to decide "You know what, fuck that mad engineer guy, how can I best lean on him?" and the more I have in public, the more tools this guy is going to have.

[rogue_cells@chaos.social]

@Tutanota I don't need privacy because of me doing something nefarious. I need privacy because I have to question your intent, goodwill, and competence to keep me safe, based on your past actions.

[toriver@mas.to]

@d4v @Tutanota It’s especially funny when it comes from Americans, when the US has the concept of "doxxing" where someone spreads someone else’s address, phone number, email address or the like…

[aurelpere@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota

[softwaretheron@mas.to]

@The_Universality @Tutanota

"I have nothing to hide."

"How many guns do you own?"

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@Tutanota @Catfish_Man Turn to someone and look directly at them with dead eyes and tell them ‘I know when your kids leave for school in the morning, and when they leave school in the afternoon, and the routes they take’.

And watch them freak the fuck out.

Weird how that happens.

[goose@fosstodon.org]

@mo @pnairolf @Tutanota retroactive laws?

[peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv]

@Tutanota when your boss badly want to know where you stand on tax policy, trust me, you have a lot to hide from people that have no right to intrude in your life.

[camilo@tuiter.rocks]

@crazyeddie
Well, in case you decide for a pig I suggest Donald, with or without the surname.
@The_Universality @Tutanota

[multifact@floss.social]

@Tutanota I have nothing to show.

[tutanota@mastodon.social]

@multifact

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@pepintheshort @Tutanota you should have also asked for their door key (actually, you could even ask why they have one), promising that you won't touch anything, just share photos of their household goods to everyone you know...

[nando161@partyon.xyz]

@Tutanota #classwar, #EatTheRich, #fuckthesystem!

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@SoftwareTheron @Tutanota Two crossbows!

...

Wait.

WAIT!

(This is actually the first time someone suggested this. But I wouldn't find this one that harmful.)

[softwaretheron@mas.to]

@The_Universality @Tutanota
Perhaps you remember "the gummint's coming for our guns!!" ?

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@SoftwareTheron No. This is the first time I hear about this.

[softwaretheron@mas.to]

@The_Universality
Too American, perhaps? (Not that I am.)
Or maybe too old.

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@SoftwareTheron I'm from EU Member State and not even old.

Still I don't know to what event is that refering to nor what were the arguments.

[softwaretheron@mas.to]

@The_Universality
I'm old.

There was, and probably still is, a claim among some right-wing Americans that they have guns to protect them from the state, and that the state is continually trying to constrain their ownership of weapons.

The same people claim(-ed) to believe strongly that only those with something to hide should be frightened by intrusive law enforcement and data-gathering. Generally, what they actually meant was "The cops are on our side and we should be able to know everything about you". Especially in an LGBTQ+ context. Not illegal, but being strongly resisted by exactly these people.

I wish I'd thought to point this contradiction out to them when I knew some, in the very early days of social media.