I feel like people enabke this in a way. People go out and buy what I call plug and play devices. It is what I refer to devices that just work. They don't actually educate themselves on technology...
I feel like people enabke this in a way. People go out and buy what I call plug and play devices. It is what I refer to devices that just work. They don't actually educate themselves on technology and what is happening with their device and data, but you can damn sure guarantee they know every in and out of sna0chat though.
People want devices that are easy to set up. They don't want to have to worry about security and what is happening across their home network or what ports something is opening. So they blindly buy these things never learning anything about it. Which allows companies to just produce and market these items with little or no control options.
A good example are Roku devices. In my opinion Roku based stuff is easy for the average consumer to use, but they're too locked down and set the standard for what is on the market. You can't do whatever you want or install whatever you want.
If people woukd be a little more security concious it would provide pushback.
There was an article about plex port forwarding people's router for them in order to send data out. People just need to be more concerned / aware. Not give in so their devices just work.
But I may be a little biased because I get frustrated when someone knows the exact ins and outs of Twitter or every filter on Snapchat, but they can't perform basic actions in common place software like MS Office.
I think we cannot blame the users for being ignorant. What we need to do is to make them care about privacy enough to ask some important questions, before buying something. And going to subs like...
I think we cannot blame the users for being ignorant. What we need to do is to make them care about privacy enough to ask some important questions, before buying something. And going to subs like reddit's r/privacy to know what people think about that. If we were able to make people care as much about privacy as their instagram filters, that would have been a won battle.
I believe the technology to enable such a thing is already here. What we have is a UI problem and an educational one. I tend to view privacy like personal hygiene:
The average person does not need to know how bacteria reproduce. They just need to know that they exist, they do us harm and there is something they can do about it: soap, tooth brushing, etc. We technologist, need to create the digital analogous of the soap and tooth paste.
Right now, we are in the dark ages of privacy, I guess. At that time, people had a shower once or twice in their lives (in Europe) and didn't really know what hygiene was nor how it could help them.
Let's shine some light in to the average person's life and make them understand the risks of having a poor digital health
I feel like people enabke this in a way. People go out and buy what I call plug and play devices. It is what I refer to devices that just work. They don't actually educate themselves on technology and what is happening with their device and data, but you can damn sure guarantee they know every in and out of sna0chat though.
People want devices that are easy to set up. They don't want to have to worry about security and what is happening across their home network or what ports something is opening. So they blindly buy these things never learning anything about it. Which allows companies to just produce and market these items with little or no control options.
A good example are Roku devices. In my opinion Roku based stuff is easy for the average consumer to use, but they're too locked down and set the standard for what is on the market. You can't do whatever you want or install whatever you want.
If people woukd be a little more security concious it would provide pushback.
There was an article about plex port forwarding people's router for them in order to send data out. People just need to be more concerned / aware. Not give in so their devices just work.
But I may be a little biased because I get frustrated when someone knows the exact ins and outs of Twitter or every filter on Snapchat, but they can't perform basic actions in common place software like MS Office.
I think we cannot blame the users for being ignorant. What we need to do is to make them care about privacy enough to ask some important questions, before buying something. And going to subs like reddit's r/privacy to know what people think about that. If we were able to make people care as much about privacy as their instagram filters, that would have been a won battle.
I believe the technology to enable such a thing is already here. What we have is a UI problem and an educational one. I tend to view privacy like personal hygiene:
The average person does not need to know how bacteria reproduce. They just need to know that they exist, they do us harm and there is something they can do about it: soap, tooth brushing, etc. We technologist, need to create the digital analogous of the soap and tooth paste.
Right now, we are in the dark ages of privacy, I guess. At that time, people had a shower once or twice in their lives (in Europe) and didn't really know what hygiene was nor how it could help them.
Let's shine some light in to the average person's life and make them understand the risks of having a poor digital health