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<blockquote data-quote="Electr0n" data-source="post: 719381" data-attributes="member: 70195"><p>I don&#039;t think it&#039;s a false sense of security, question is who is it from whom you&#039;re asking for protection. Fingerprint scanners and other security measures on smartphones have definitely made lives of the thieves a bit harder, but of course when the govt is concerned then having a smartphone is a bad idea in the first place. As you can see the alphabet soup agencies don&#039;t always need a vendor&#039;s assistance to break into a device. A sophisticated system&#039;s sophistication is it&#039;s major weakness. So using complex tech to evade the govt surveillance isn&#039;t much of a great solution. Then comes the ad agencies like Google and FB. Now this is an unfortunate case of living with the vices of the society. Whenever a company grows, it grows the power to change society. Now the general users don&#039;t bother with things like &quot;privacy&quot; , the only thing they want is &quot;free&quot;. Now when the majority of the society does something that becomes the norm. If we look around our friends and family, you will see most use a Gmail and fb account and aren&#039;t bothered at all that the ad agencies are profiling them. To most of them internet is termed as &quot;Google bing&quot;. They aren&#039;t bothered by targeted ads, rather they prefer it. Now that such things have become a norm, you can&#039;t expect to find privacy in consumer products, specifically in &quot;free&quot; products.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Electr0n, post: 719381, member: 70195"] I don't think it's a false sense of security, question is who is it from whom you're asking for protection. Fingerprint scanners and other security measures on smartphones have definitely made lives of the thieves a bit harder, but of course when the govt is concerned then having a smartphone is a bad idea in the first place. As you can see the alphabet soup agencies don't always need a vendor's assistance to break into a device. A sophisticated system's sophistication is it's major weakness. So using complex tech to evade the govt surveillance isn't much of a great solution. Then comes the ad agencies like Google and FB. Now this is an unfortunate case of living with the vices of the society. Whenever a company grows, it grows the power to change society. Now the general users don't bother with things like "privacy" , the only thing they want is "free". Now when the majority of the society does something that becomes the norm. If we look around our friends and family, you will see most use a Gmail and fb account and aren't bothered at all that the ad agencies are profiling them. To most of them internet is termed as "Google bing". They aren't bothered by targeted ads, rather they prefer it. Now that such things have become a norm, you can't expect to find privacy in consumer products, specifically in "free" products. [/QUOTE]

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