This is exactly it. So many normal people have no awareness or concern of the bad faith in so much of the corporate and tech world. They might have some negative impressions along the lines of “I was talking about X with my friend and the next ad on Facebook was X,” but even in those cases they don’t realize how deep it goes and that the companies don’t need to listen to your microphone.
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MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com 5 months agoTo tye average person, putting that much thought into it is for elite hackers only and too much effort.
Zink@programming.dev 5 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Must not be good at cybersecurity then.
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Anyone I know who’s actually deep into cybersecurity avoids extra devices, including smartphones. If you’re not hyper paranoid, you’ve missed the majority of what the nation states are up to.
femtech@midwest.social 5 months ago
Or you just know how to block and segregate it on your network.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or they run everything locally or on a subnet without Internet. It’s very possible to have a smart house that doesn’t rely on the Internet and does everything locally.
It takes more work, but it’s definitely worth it.