The consumers have spoken: they're OK with trusting computer manufactures, software vendors, telecommunications carriers and governments.
Please be careful with statements like this! With the wrong speaker, they can justify all kinds of evils.
I'd be willing to wager some high 90s percent of people buying electronics don't even consider privacy at the hardware level because they don't even have the proper knowledge to have the mental state to ask those questions in the first place.
That does not mean that consumers are "OK" with it, any more than consumers care about dihydrogen monoxide in their food until they're told about it.
Please be careful with statements like this! With the wrong speaker, they can justify all kinds of evils.
I'd be willing to wager some high 90s percent of people buying electronics don't even consider privacy at the hardware level because they don't even have the proper knowledge to have the mental state to ask those questions in the first place.
That does not mean that consumers are "OK" with it, any more than consumers care about dihydrogen monoxide in their food until they're told about it.