Oh no. I work with very trendy Silicon Valley folks and it’s always someone in shorts and a t-shirt. Which is to say: it’s definitely a culture issue, but it doesn’t have to be a PHB doing it. I know a lot of really smart people who are under a lot of pressure, and combined with a lack of AWS knowledge, “just make it public” is surprisingly common.
He must have been doing a better job of shielding us from his bosses than I thought, or I've had more crazy bosses than I thought, because a lot of it seemed like normal bureaucratic pathology to me, if a little more intense than usual.
Are you saying there's some sort of group or club where you pay 15 cents for a mask and then put it on to get well-acquainted to psycologically aberrant individuals from a comfortable distance before they go prison?
Fifteen cents is roughly the cost of a small informational pamphlet (likely more if printed with color and laminated but I have taken some artistic liberty in my previous comment), and prison is just one solution to a wider class of social impairments of which sociopathy is just one instance. Other instances of solutions share the quality of being unpleasant but necessary things any civilized society devotes energy to by learned necessity and include a functioning constitution, military, legislature, courts, police, and more. I thought this was clear but on rereading I see maybe I have failed; thanks for asking.
Hey now. Mass surveillance, data breaches, and non-consensual data sale are absolutely issues, and will continue to be. This isn’t a boogey man, this is real, and it’s entirely the technology industry’s fault. Maybe we wouldn’t have to deal with the GDPR if we treated data as a liability from the beginning.
This isn’t a boogey man, this is real, and it’s entirely the technology industry’s fault.
I agree there are real dangers, but I don't think blaming it entirely on the tech industry is fair. The financial services industry has been profiling as much as it could get away with forever. Government security services and the like obviously do this sort of thing as well. Modern technology has made these things easier and surely provides a generous source of additional data to both of the above groups, and targeted ads have created another not entirely welcome variation on the theme, but modern technology is hardly the original source of creepy data-hoarding behaviour.
