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How I Ended Up Obsessed with Privacy

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Jun 24, 2026 12:21 PM Last edited Jun 24, 2026 1:10 PM
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If I asked myself 10 years in the past he wouldn't believe how deep I ended up in the privacy rabbit hole. Thinking about Opsec, surveillance and the oppression of freedom of speech, I won't bat my eyes for such problem. That kid (me) only worried how to get by in school and anxious whether he could survive with low self-esteem. But now it totally different. All because one incident that totally hide under my nose until the secret uncover.

So I already know tech and stuff. I know how to operate computer since i was a kid because there's one in the house. I thought it just a machine of entertainment, I don't even know how to code. All I know is that I can play game and open youtube and search on google the biggest fish or something lmao. It's not powerful but it was wonderful pc to play around. Then Junior High School come and let just say I like a girl on my third year and dating her.

It's your usual teen love, we talk, we meet, we chat in phone. But sometimes when I talk to her i'm not alone, there's a friend who helped me to meet this girl at the beginning and sometimes he helped me to compose word (i'm bad at talking back then lmao). In order to do those stuff he use my phone of course. I thought he never done anything sneaky. Ohh how wrong I was.

Fast forward 1-2 years, that friend of mine confess that he have my social media password. I was in shock. So you're saying, I talked privately to all my friend and he can read all that?? For what? The worst part is he probably know the content of my message when i talked with my gf which should be shared only between us. That just awful. Because of that it kick me to obsession with my own privacy. I can't believe someone spying on me and it was someone who I thought I can trust.

And yeah I don't trust that guy anymore. But sometimes we met on the street.

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Jun 24, 2026 12:48 PM
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damn... honestly yea, seems like a story that has happened to alot of people, those things are unfortunately way too common in this world...

I can't believe someone spying on me and it was someone who I thought I can trust.

as someone that has been wronged over and over again by the ones that were the closest to me and should have been the most trusted, i hear you that, and it sucks...

like, whether it's personal relationships, family, or even i guess at a bigger scale just governments, those things are just fucked up
and looking back, if those people ever were in a position of power in their job, able to exercess those at a bigger scale, then it's pretty much exactly what we're seeing with government overreach, the creepy flock cameras made literally by creeps, or recently even more fucked up on that:

This pole is far worse than any Flock Camera

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=wEfbhEVuvMM

the world is run by creeps and it's just gross...

so legit grateful that there is some pushback from people on that, even from people i didnt expect that would, keeps the hopium alive for a better future somehow u know... well, one step at a time type thing, one side been moving very fast, the other side that has been trying to defend themselves against that been raising awarness, building alternative technologies to fight back and so on

cipherpunk is not ded: https://monero.forum/thread/cypherpunks-manifesto
and lots of people are cipherpunks without even knowing that they are, but they'll find their way to those ideals and technologies eventually, pretty much everyone has dealt with things similar, or tbh, at a bigger scale, literally everyone has since 2020 at this point

so anyways, thank you for sharing your story on that, shitty people are everywhere unfortunately...

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Jun 24, 2026 12:59 PM
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@SpinningCat Yeah I think this is pretty common problem but few realize it happening. People just love spying I guess, they carve that forbidden knowledge of another person life. They want control. But you know, i'm grateful. If not because that guy confessing that he's spying on me I wouldn't ended up learning about privacy and why it's important for all of us. Btw thank you for the tip @SpinningCat and @chillin appreciate it ❤️

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Jun 24, 2026 1:04 PM
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the creepy flock cameras made literally by creeps, or recently even more fucked up on that:

Yeah we gonna need to use balaclava and scarf to cover our face now. The camera spying on us just too much

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