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hypfertoday at 5:33 AM1 replyview on HN

You're missing all of the points that there could be by focussing on random people.

While it is always an individual tragedy when people treat each other badly (e.g. through deepfakes and all), the real threat does not exist on that level.

This is about misinformation and disinformation, so we're talking state actors. And with that, the 99.9% hypothesis does not hold true.


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fwipsytoday at 6:37 AM

It's funny how people always say something is "a tragedy at the individual level" when they mean "it's not my problem." It's even crazier to dismiss the value of a security feature, just because it might make people feel more secure. That's true of every security feature! Very little of the technology that the web is built on is proof against state actors.

I like being contrarian as much as the next guy, but "Actually, having security is worse for security" is taking it a little too far.

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