Dr.Grass said:
vivster said:
Understanding hacking is a big part of network security.
I never said I know more. I'm pretty much just a freshman since I'm just doing what I do for like 3 years. I just said he oversimplifies it for the audience. And if you oversimplify it then the audience will take things the wrong way and start thinking the government is actually spying on unsuspecting citizens. Which I think he intended. Even the word spying is misused. It only spies on its targets. Normal citizens maybe get their data tapped but no human soul will ever see them as it's just that big amount of data that bots have to sift through it and discarding 99,99% of the data. Nobody at the government cares about you sitting in front of your kinect or laptop.
Yes, a lot of things are possible but most of them are only possible in certain circumstances and often require actual action from the user itself. You can't just go and say: "I'm gonna hack that target". You need to do a lot of research and patience to target a single individuum and actually spy on it. You can't do that to millions of internet users. That's why it's only practical for them to only care about their actual targets aka criminals.
However the media and people like hime make it deliberately seem like bad people and the government are constantly spying on you when you jack off in front of your laptop. That is misleading and spreading unnecessary fear.
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Ok mister "I've been doing this for three years", let's not tell anybody at all that the tools and MO exist to gather information from unsuspecting citizens JUST IN CASE the average person overreacts and doesn't want to jackoff in front of his PC anymore.
You really are missing the point here. Did you actually watch the video?
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I watched the whole video and tried to hold back my vomit the whole time.
People are overestimating the importance of their data. No one gives a shit about you or the data garbage you produce. In fact they actually hate to sift through all the garbage to get the good stuff. Only if you start to get suspicious and hit the right triggers for the filters of the bots that are going through the raw data the data gets collected and not immediately deleted.
It's simply unfeasible for the government or other "criminals" to scan and keep all the data they collect. So while they might catch your data they don't care for it. Much less than you.
I don't know about you but I don't feel particularly spied on when a soulless program looks for keywords in my collected data and after that discards it.
