alt Hacker NewsSome do, some don't.
The reality is there are some of us who truly just don't care. The convenience outweighs the negative. Yesterday I told an agent, "here's my api key and my root password - do it for me". Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too.
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I mean eventually, some adversarial entity will use this complete lack of defenses to hurt even the most privileged people in some way, so.
Unless of course they too turn to apathy and stop caring about being adversarial, but given the massive differences in quality of life between the west and the rest of the world, I'm not so sure about this.
That is of course a purely probabilistic thing and with that hard to grasp on an emotional level. It also might not happen during ones own lifetime, but that's where children would usually come in. Though, yeah, yeah, it's HN. I know I know.
> Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too.
This is such an incredibly loser attitude and is why we can't have nice things.
HN is now where I get my daily does[1] of apathetic indifference/go with the flow attitude.
[1] * dose
That’s just sad.
> The convenience outweighs the negative. Yesterday I told an agent, "here's my api key and my root password - do it for me".
Does the security team at your company know you're doing this?
Security as a whole is inconvenient. That doesn't mean we should ignore it.
> Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too.
Hacker News in 2026.