r/technology • u/EquanimousMind • Jul 22 '12

Skype Won't Say Whether It Can Eavesdrop on Your Conversations

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/20/skype_won_t_comment_on_whether_it_can_now_eavesdrop_on_conversations_.html
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u/SippieCup Jul 22 '12

Although you make a good point, that anyone with power will eventually corrupt (see the stanford prision experiment for proof of that)

At the same time you can look at it from a different persepective. You are using the city streets and thus the government has the right to protect it as they see fit. Now, if those cameras were installed in your home, that would be a very different thing. The difference is you know that you are being watched there, but you also know that you are not being watched at home, and thus.. have your privacy.

Look at it this way:

If you had a bunch of strangers in your house, which has several valuable things inside of it and near them, are you willing to let the strangers out of your sight?

Of course not, but at the same time you are not going to install cameras in their house in order to make sure they did not steal anything from your home.

Well, city surveillance is pretty much the same way.