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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Is there anything to that or are they just paranoid?
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They are just paranoid.
Paranoia is a defense mechanism. What the clinical paranoid is
really afraid of, on a level they can't consciously admit to, is that they aren't important, don't matter, and nobody
cares about them.
If you can buy into a paranoid fantasy, hey, you're important! You
matter! Someone cares enough about you to be after you.
I've had the occasional interchange with people elsewhere convinced Microsoft is in league with the NSA and left back doors in Windows so the NSA could snoop on their PC. All I can say is "You
wish you were important enough that anyone at the NSA could be
bothered to snoop on your PC."
A lot of the current debate about privacy and security online reduces to that sort of concern, and the underlying emotion is "I feel helpless, powerless, and not in control of my own life."
I do not share that that concern, and have the ability to be anonymous on the occasions where it seems needed. It usually isn't.
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Dennis