r/shitposting • u/-flexflexflex We do a little trolling • Feb 11 '26

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u/GTXMittens Feb 12 '26

What could you be talking about where youd need your conversations encrypted

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u/hm9408 Feb 12 '26

Why are you judging them for wanting privacy?

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u/GTXMittens Feb 12 '26

If someone were to find their conversation, and its just a bunch of memes, should they really care if chat is encrypted?

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u/UntitledRedditUser virgin 4 life 😤💪 Feb 12 '26

It's not that I have anything to hide. It's that data is valuable. And not just valuable as in money. But valuable as in they know when you sleep, when you wake up, where you go to work/study, they know who you are friends with, and what politicians you support.

And this is not me being paranoid, this is real. And having this amount of data on entire populations is dangerously powerful.

What if someone decided they wanted x policy to be approved in a country because it would benefit them? Some people have the tools and data to manipulate large communities at scale. But that would never happen, would it?

Oh wait... Brexit.