• fluckx@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Exactly. Same as is happening with privacy right now. Chip away bit by bit. Do it all at once and people will complain. But do it bit by bit and they won’t know until it’s too late.

    Similarly to the story of the frog in the boiling water. Drop it in hot water and it’ll jump out. Heat the water slowly and it’ll boil to death.

    But hey. At least we’ve got nothing to hide right? /S

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      7 months ago

      Protonmail is today (or was a few years ago) what everyone thought Gmail was when it came out. I can still remember how excited I was to get an email accepting me into the Gmail beta. A crazy amount of space, no one knew how they did it.

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          7 months ago

          It came with an implicit agreement of trust. You had a company just wanting to make the world more connected and had the money to do it. Cue the Snowden leaks and we find out they’d been working with the NSA for some time, giving indirect access to all user data.

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        7 months ago

        I moved to the Proton suite last year, apart from some shitfuckery regarding decrypting/organizing and some teething issues with their Linux app, it’s been all smiles.

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      7 months ago

      As a side note, here’s what Wikipedia says about the frog experiment:

      “While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual,[2][3] according to modern biologists the premise is false: changing location is a natural thermoregulation strategy for frogs and other ectotherms, and is necessary for survival in the wild. A frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Furthermore, a frog placed into already boiling water will die immediately, not jump out.[4][5]”

      Your point still stands, but you might want to consider switching to another metaphor next time.

      Source: Boiling frog

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          7 months ago

          Neither did I until one day I stumbled upon a video that explained the misguided experiments that were behind the saying. Just today I started reading about it on Wikipedia and found that juicy summary.

          There’s a pretty good reason why we have ethical restrictions and peer review with modern science.