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FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity. Here's how to do it (www.usatoday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Showed this information to my boomer mother who then asked my also tech illiterate step father what he thought.

"We don't send sensitive information through texts."

The ignorance almost physically hurts.. Thinking that only the actual message content is important.

Or ignoring the pictures we send and the private things I talk about with my mom.

Do I think that specifically my information would be useful to China? Likely not. But I also have no idea what all is possible with that kind of information in the aggregate.

At the very least, I assume they will use it to manipulate us even more with disinformation.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

Easier, imagine half the strangers you've met during the day reading your messages aloud with orcish laughs and judging the pictures.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

But I also have no idea what all is possible with that kind of information in the aggregate

so does your mom and the general public. This idea and its impact is far too remote to people's day to day life.

  • "Yes, they can collect all they want, why should I care?"
  • "My data is too insignificant to be meaningful for anyone, LMAO, do you think I am some kind of a CEO?"

it may help to try coming out with a story or incident that they can relate to. then again most of the time these stories will sound like a conspiracy theory,

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I'm so exhausted at people who answer like this.

It makes me feel crazy.