[Skybird]

I have a class-4 high security front door. That thing weighs 140 kg I think, is 8 cm thick, massive hard wood and three layers of plated steel, magnetic key cylinder, and if two times turning the key three dozen anchorpoints are locking the door leaf in the door frame.

Still, the thing can be opened, if need be. I know it, since it happened, I had locked myself out 2 and a half years ago. They needed almost 3 hours to open the doorlock, by destroying the cyclinder and the mechanism of the bars. It costed me a thousand Euros to replace that. If that would have failed they would have needed to destroy the whole door - leaf and frame, evertyhing. Then that woudl have costed me four tiem sa smuch - plus the costs for rebuilding the wall.

Its not about making it impossible to break into your house or home. Its about making it difficult, and at least not mindlessly leaving the door invitingly open.

Many people are doing the latter, metaphorically. They post on FB and Twitter, give their intimate data away without thinking twice, and say "I have nothing to hide, why would anyone mean harm to me"? Well, shall we make a list? The night will fly by in no time, promised.

Also, data you gave away or have lost, is away. And law environments change over longer times, political sysytems, government orientations _ just look at what the Donals has done to the pollical climate i n the US, and what woluld become of the Us if he had his way - you would not recognize it anymore. You do not know if the post you posted today maybe in 15 years will bring you into conflict with the law of the time then. Snowden named his book not for no reason "Permanent Record".

BTW, you can safely assume that TOR and VPN can and have been hacked already. The data surveillance is all automatically. All AI. All filtering of the data is done all by itself, without human superivisors overwatching every step. No human overwatch needed. Snowden was mercilessly clear about that. And that technology he werote ab out is now twenty years old!

But if somebody one day notices you for something, he might decide that it is about to change your anonym,ity, and thnaks to Bush Junior then all the past anonymously collected nad per,mantely saved data can be accesses and acitvely searched and analysed. And then deeds from your far away past suddenly will show up again and will be used against you. We are clearly marching towards complete and total surveillance, and the state control everywhere claims more and more power, and move us towards totalitarianism. Even in Germany and the EU. Even in the US. And it is all for a good cause, always, of course. The good cause.

When I am being told about these "good causes" these days, I am nowadays tempted to immediately open fire at the messenger.

And then there are those who cannot stand that people are not all the same and are not Borg at all, but stay separate, not readable like a crystal orb and fully transparent, these people want to enforce social norms of behaviour that infantilize us and destroy any social distance by enforcing total openess to total intimacy with every stranger - private or business-profit-oriented, or the state. Thats why I react allergic and very aggressive to this habit of calling every adult stranger I never met before by his first name from beginning on, or if I get adressed by strangers with the German "Du". Its not only unpolite. Its overstepping a red line, a social distance line. Its an attack to make be accept the other getting under my skin.

Some salesmen in stores already got highly discouraging and rude returns from me for their infantility or impertinence, depending on how you rate it - in principle, this kind of behaviour is both.

Job employers already now seek the web for private information about candidates wanting a job. The EU wants to enforce anonymous emplying procedures, to suppress racism or m igrant hostility or any other form of ressentiments. This is a reason why I, if I were an entrepreneur, would not found an enterprise in the EU. I do not accept this (or group or gender quota, for that matter). If its my money and my accoutnability and my decision on the fate of the company i founded, then I rule whom I let work for me and whom not. If that is not accepted by governments, then that government will not see me making myself vulnerbale to it by founding a company under its legal administration.