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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Saki@monero.town to c/privacy@monero.town

Send me your seed words.

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

Edward Snowden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

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[-] fenrrs@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

You have something to protect

[-] Saki@monero.town 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Exactly. “Then don’t lock your door!” “Picture: a crazy obsessive ex…”

“Public (willing to share; open) <- -> Private (personal; protected; secret)” and “Showing good things you do <- -> Hiding bad things you do” are different vectors, apples and oranges. Clearly, there are 1) publicly done good things, 2) publicly done bad things, 3) privately done good things, and 4) privately done bad things — showing these two dimensions are independent. Or open-source good tools, and open-source malware (e.g. with backdoor) too.

The argument that one should be able to reveal everything if not doing anything wrong, or that if it’s not hidden it’s good and if it’s hidden it must be something bad, is unrealistic, illogical, misleading, confusing, and simply silly.

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