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Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
I used my accounts and Twitter kept growing and growing. I updated my personal account several times a month. Another one was updated on a daily basis. My other accounts usually got updated every few months.
Then one day I got a DM from someone asking me whether I was interested in selling the account he was sending a DM to. I told him I had no intention of selling. Thank you for asking.
I didn't even ask him to name a price cause I wanted to use the account on one of my projects. So whatever his price was going to be, I couldn't care less.
Fast forward a few months of inactivity and it turns out I can no longer access my account AND a big media company is using it.
I was shocked but I remembered the guy's name so I Googled it. It turns out he was the CEO of the media company who hacked my account !
I should clarify he probably didn't hack it. The password was just too difficult so he must have pulled a few strings in order to get it done.
In terms of offering more products without making it look like a tiered system. If it's invoicing, it's perfectly fine to add that as a feature we can pay for. Lots of SMBs already have their own invoicing system. They know it's something separate. Just give it a name, a different color and sell it as a feature. I think I would like a to-do list as well. Not all contacts buy the same thing but some do, I want to automate it a little bit, so it's a step by step approach that I can go through. Give me a list that I can easily copy to other projects and easily change. Not sure if Basecamp offers something similar. Add it to the crm system as a feature and charge me for it. Sounds fair to me.
And it's problematic because indifference is what gave Hitler the chance to become more powerful, indifference helped him identify minorities and it helped him build 45 concentration camps, ... the list goes on and on. You all know what happened next.
Would Hitler have been a problem if it wasn't for our indifference ? Would the technology that build the internet have been used against us if it wasn't for our indifference ?
Indifference is probably more dangerous than those who have "evil" intentions. And I don't have a solution. I don't know what we can do about it, other than educating people on it but it's clearly not working and it needs to happen now because the problem is getting bigger by the day, imo.
It's our indifference that gets us into a lot of trouble. Time and time again.
Right now, they don't need a warrant and I bet it's already causing problems for some people because government employees misbehave when you give them a grey area like that. That's just a fact. And you're not gonna hear about it because people are powerless. They can't react to it because it will get them in more trouble.
Those who say that isn't true are the ones who haven't experienced it or are the ones taking advantage of others in similar ways.
And what makes it even worse is that the governments store all the data for years, maybe even decades. History has told us this is going to become a huge problem. For a lot of people. We may not live long enough to experience what can happen but it's just a matter of time. And this generation is responsible for it.