Back handed complements in Yiddish I love it. Bryan has just been called “programmer”.
The serious point here is that we all have some things we would rather not have public knowledge and it’s too easy to create or exaggerate a threat to have people believing that it’s OK for our conversations to be spied on to catch that paedophile, or that terrorist.
In another thread on this forum dan posted a link to a pdf from the Scorched Earth Society which I think is relevant here.
The freedoms we have achieved are not universal, some countries are better than others, and they have been hard fought for over centuries. Yet, too many of us are happy to post intimate details of our lives to social media sites such as facebook and twitter. We are also tolerant of big industries as well as governments following our private instant messaging and e-mail.