<story><title>FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona</title><url>https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1255585290380443648</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>As an Aussie it&amp;#x27;s becoming increasingly clear that my wish to run my own servers in order to maintain some semblance of privacy is quite likely going to become a massive liability to my freedom, if the current state of affairs continues much longer. 
To be clear, by hosting a website I&amp;#x27;m liable to &amp;quot;authorities&amp;quot; wanting to access everything anyway. By using a website in this increasingly fascist world, it becomes increasingly likely that my websites&amp;#x2F;mail servers will look &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot;, simply because I&amp;#x27;m not &amp;quot;toeing the line&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>analyte123</author><text>Everybody’s worst nightmares when it comes to surveillance keep coming true. I’ve started to suspect the “I got nothing to hide” attitude that many privacy advocates criticize is at some level a defense mechanism for the realization that you’re completely owned and completely powerless. In other words, they know that if they really sat down and thought about what was in their Google searches, DNS lookups, or credit card purchases they would be very disturbed, so they choose not to think about it to maintain sanity. People are smarter than we give them credit for.&lt;p&gt;Because many on HN know and consciously recognize the facts here, my question would be: how do you all cope with surveillance?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kebman</author><text>Could the answer be encrypted hird-party de-centralized mini-services being sprinkled accross various locations through-out the world? Perhaps the &amp;quot;authorities&amp;quot; would be able to crack one such mini-service, but it would never get them all due to how it limits jurisdictional access. I&amp;#x27;m just thinking out aloud... Does things like this already exist (outside TOR nodes, of course)?</text></comment>
<story><title>FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona</title><url>https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1255585290380443648</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>As an Aussie it&amp;#x27;s becoming increasingly clear that my wish to run my own servers in order to maintain some semblance of privacy is quite likely going to become a massive liability to my freedom, if the current state of affairs continues much longer. 
To be clear, by hosting a website I&amp;#x27;m liable to &amp;quot;authorities&amp;quot; wanting to access everything anyway. By using a website in this increasingly fascist world, it becomes increasingly likely that my websites&amp;#x2F;mail servers will look &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot;, simply because I&amp;#x27;m not &amp;quot;toeing the line&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>analyte123</author><text>Everybody’s worst nightmares when it comes to surveillance keep coming true. I’ve started to suspect the “I got nothing to hide” attitude that many privacy advocates criticize is at some level a defense mechanism for the realization that you’re completely owned and completely powerless. In other words, they know that if they really sat down and thought about what was in their Google searches, DNS lookups, or credit card purchases they would be very disturbed, so they choose not to think about it to maintain sanity. People are smarter than we give them credit for.&lt;p&gt;Because many on HN know and consciously recognize the facts here, my question would be: how do you all cope with surveillance?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grugagag</author><text>Let them work hard even if you have nothing to hide. I&amp;#x27;d refuse to disclose any private info up until the law requires me to. Intimidation is a trick they use to cut down on work.</text></comment>