Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act | Mikko Hypponen" video.

  1. Moxie Marlinspike once gave awesome example of the need for privacy: you have heard about homosexuality, right? It was illegal in most countries for a long time. Do you think it would have ever got its current acceptance without privacy? If every government everywhere would have instantly known about all homosexual activity and always enforced the ban, we would be living in different world. Replace homosexuality with anything else that's different from previous centuries and was once banned.
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  2. If you say "I have nothing to hide", I'll say give me following information: your home address, your bank account details (offline and online), all pin codes and passwords you have, photos of all the keys you have, all the medical records you have, and all your calendaring info. Maybe I'll also install some video cameras to you bedroom and bathroom and internet connected GPS trackers to your cars. Can you see any potential issues with sharing all that data with me or the rest of the world? Would you like to reconsider that statement about "I have nothing to hide"?
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