• my_hat_stinks@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Drawing a distinction between privacy and security is kind of nonsense in this context. While they are technically different, they’re only different in the way that an apple and a fruit are different. Privacy is an aspect of security.

    If your privacy was violated in any other context you would not feel secure.

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      This. There is no practical reason to separate privacy and security in this way.

      If bad actors can access your data without your consent, it doesn’t matter if you call it a breach of privacy or security. It’s still a breach. At best, playing semantics like this allows a corp to claim a system filled with backdoors is “secure”. Utter marketing nonsense.