[ga] Bridiging the gap: Why privacy and security are so important XIII - Arogance? : Why Online Privacy Is Broken

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Seems that there is a too wide spread of arogance here, or
$$ trumps everything else???  Vint, better have a 'Dutch
Uncle' talk with Mr. Schmidt, and soon....

See:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/24/195208/Why-Online-Privacy-Is-Broken

One of the more trite and oft-repeated maxims in the
software industry goes something like this: We're not focusing on
security because our customers aren't asking for it. They want features
and functionality. When they ask for security, then we'll worry about it.
Not only is this philosophy doomed to failure, 
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/why-cant-johnny-have-privacy-052410
it's now being repeated in the realm of privacy, with potentially 
disastrous effects. A quick search of recent news on the privacy front 
reveals that just about all of it is bad. Facebook is exposing users' 
live chat sessions and other data to third parties. Google is caught 
recording not only MAC address and SSID information from 
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/14/2259204/Google-Says-It-Mistakenly-Collected-Wi-Fi-Data-While-Mapping
public Wi-Fi hotspots, but storing data from the networks as well. But 
the prevailing attitude among corporate executives in these cases seems 
to be summed up by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who famously said this not 
too long ago: 'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, 
maybe you 
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/08/0127219/Google-CEO-Says-Privacy-Worries-Are-For-Wrongdoers
shouldn't be doing it in the first place.' If you look beyond the patent 
absurdity of Schmidt's statement for a minute, you'll find another old 
maxim hiding underneath: Blame the user. You want privacy? Don't use 
our search engine/photo software/email application/maps. That's our data 
now, thank you very much. Oh, you don't want your private chats exposed 
to the world? Sorry, you never told us that.

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 300+k members/stakeholders and growing, 
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