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Comment by rayiner | Hacker News Reader

Why the hell would someone using TOR use Facebook?

Before the downvote brigade comes out in full force, stop and think a second. The US government is building its own map of all our social connections for everyone worldwide, not just suspects but everyone. It will know the names of everyone you know, how well you know them, even down to the date that you met them and dates that you were in the same location together.

Why WOULD anyone who cares about their anonymity use Facebook? I am wondering why I use Facebook even.

> I am wondering why I use Facebook even.

Because, as much as you shout and holler about your privacy being violated, and as much as you act like you value said privacy, you're more than willing to give it up for a modicum of convenience.

You, me, and everyone else. Anyone who still uses a 3rd party to handle unencrypted data they expect to remain private is simply uninformed. Period.

There needs to be a way to have a foot in each world. Total online privacy and anonymity when you want it, and ability to use facebook, twitter, hacker news, and other sites where you know and expect to be tracked.

Like Chrome's "incognito mode" that extends beyond cookies to an anonymous network identity. Like using Tor through a VPN tunnel, I guess.

I think we should separate the things which aren't so important to protect (FB conversations, Reddit comments, Netflix traffic, etc.) from the things which MUST be private and secure (bank data, classified data, misc. data which you want guarantees about security on). Different sandboxes for different things. There's no reason my Pinterest account needs to be as secure as my government's troop deployments.

Well you can start your education here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Social_media_and_t...

Social activism?

Did you not even finish reading the headline?

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