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snowden on "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Goebbels certainly didn't believe in the right to privacy but there is nothing connecting him to the "if you have nothing to hide..." quote. He certainly wasn't the first to come up with it, as it can be found in a 1917 piece by Upton Sinclair.

It seems like Goebbels' connection to the quote is one of these "it feels so true that it has to be true" misattributions that floats around on the internet and in popular culture.

And by the way, the NSA are Nazis, they are bad people doing bad things for evil reasons.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

Snowden doesn't even think the NSA is evil:

The lesson of 2013 is not that the NSA is evil. It’s that the path is dangerous. The network path is something that we need to help users get across safely. Our job as technologists, our job as engineers, our job as anybody who cares about the internet in any way, who has any kind of personal or commercial involvement is literally to armor the user, to protect the user and to make it that they can get from one end of the path to the other safely without interference,” he told an auditorium filled with the world’s foremost computer and network engineers at a 2015 meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force in Prague.

He reaffirmed his view a year later at Fusion’s 2016 Real Future Fair in Oakland, California. “If you want to build a better future, you’re going to have to do it yourself. Politics will take us only so far and if history is any guide, they are the least reliable means of achieving the effective change.… They’re not gonna jump up and protect your rights,” he said. “Technology works differently than law. Technology knows no jurisdiction.”