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submitted 8 months ago by renzev@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] renzev@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A technology that was made To Stop Criminals™ being used against a political whistleblower? Color me surprised! (thanks for sharing the link btw, didn't know about that)

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You're very welcome. It's good to be able to show real-world examples so people are less skeptical. A lot of people won't read a deep technical document describing printer surveillance, but they will read a paragraph excerpt from Wikipedia.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

And they will argue that whistleblowing is actually a crime, because, uhm, it's, uhm, yeah it's illegal! And if it's illegal to be a good citizen, then this is totally warranted and no scandal at all, because only bad people do illegal things!

Many people are willing to sacrifice a lot of people for the tiny chance of maybe stopping a criminal once.