alt Hacker NewsTerrible take. Our modern world is hopelessly complicated and we don't ask every citizen to personally defend their physical security from outside threats, nor personally manage their water and food security.
How do you even square these adjacent statements?
> even decent OpSec is hard.
> We've become such a lazy society
The plain and obvious response to our situation is that digital privacy and security should be opt-out, not opt-in. It's not as simple as adding a button that does nothing, but it actually is relatively simple for browser vendors et al to reverse their assumptions.
If you don't agree, are you knocking on doors and teaching your neighbors how to manage their security? I hope you've got a lot of patience.
I think you missed the point.
> even decent OpSec is hard.
Its hard to maintain because most people have to give something up in order to get the privacy they want. 99% of the users these days don't care about privacy. Privacy is a "boomer" thing.
Its not hard when you have literally generations of technological knowledge at your fingertips and still want something automated to do all of this for you, without any compromises on your own part - which inevitably leads to:
> We've become such a lazy society
THAT is a terrible take? Putting some onus on the user to get out of their lazyboy chair and do some research?
And your conclusion to OP talking about users taking some actual responsibility for their own privacy is this:
> If you don't agree, are you knocking on doors and teaching your neighbors how to manage their security? I hope you've got a lot of patience.
Seriously. Thanks for confirming OP's point:
> We've become such a lazy society