This is a lightly edited transcript of my presentation today at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf seminar ‘Cyber Security and Society’. I want to thank the organizers for inviting me to their conference & giving me a great opportunity to talk about something I worry about a lot. Here are the original slides with notes, which may be useful to view together with the text below. In the notes there are also additional URLs that back up the claims I make in what follows.
  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    A very uncomfortable reading but in this time, a necessary topic.

    The new development since this text was written is the Trump administration dismantling security institutions and intimidating security companies.

    And, the rampant illegal data collection of US companies feels increasingly hostile. Why would a smartphone or smartphone app need my fingerprints or microphone?

  • dave@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    ok. my reality have been truly checked! i havnt been thinking much about that type of thing, but yea we have definitely put ourselves in a terrible position.

    everything that has happened since the 90s… using email for communication, everyone switching to using the cloud for nearly everything, i havnt stepped foot in a bank in 15+ years, so many things rely on computers and the internet now… what happens when most of that stops working!?

    theres a lot of scrambling right now with countries trying to get their military back up to speed. let’s hope this is something that gets just as much attention.

    where do you even start though lol?