5.31.2015

Comforting, maybe, and wonderfully amusing too

Shockingly, Americans Don’t Trust That Their Data Can Stay Private

Though it’s clearly upsetting news that people in the U.S. can’t trust government agencies to protect their privacy, it isn’t news, and it’s comforting on some level that at least people are paying attention.

Especially coming from a publication like Wired (and by extension, the current techie OMG crowd).

An article of geek faith in the early days of the internet was, "information wants to be free," by which was meant (in the common formulation) not "free" like in beer, but "free" like in speech. Information, true believers preached, could not be contained; it would escape its confines in the end.

And now it has.

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