Originally this was a reply to this article about a Windows feature called Recall, but there's a good argument the author's concerns resonate far beyond Windows and Meta to proprietary generally.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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imagine how great it feels to say this for like 10-15 years while getting dismissed as a conspiracy nut.
and then having it happen exactly as you said it would.
The government and bad actors use this as a strategy to attack their opponents and control public opinion.
This is one of those cases where you'd really rather have been wrong.
It's called the Cassandra Complex, named after Cassandra/Kassandra of Troy.
If you think this is new, you're very naive. They just have better tools to spy on you now.
i didn't say its exactly new, quite the opposite.
its just that we can't stop it anymore.
nah you can totally stop the surveillance. Just use tailsOS, live in the basement of a building under an aluminum ceiling (to hide from synthetic-aperture radar spy sats), near a busy highway (so the LIGO gravity-wave observatory cant record the sound of your footsteps), get food deliveries so you don't have to leave, and connect to the internet using a neighbors wifi.
I was talking more about the panopticon surveillance phenomena, not the people individually trying to hide something which I'd guess its probably still possible.
But the surveillance state is here to stay and we won't get rid of it easily is what i'm saying.