…in the mid-1930’s to be exact, the Feds were developing a new program to help geezers—it was called social security. And in order to do this, everybody had to be given an ID number.
Now, ID numbers were not a popular idea in the land, since so much news was circulating about Nazis in Germany giving people numbers making people carry ID papers, and the citizens were unhappy with all this (and of course the “conservatives” were unhappy, but then they’re unhappy with everything all the time). And so the government addressed the subject of ID numbers thusly:
They said, your social security number will forever be a secret between you and the Social Security Administration, and nobody else will ever know what it is.
They said that. No kidding. You can see how it turned out.
Everybody knows what what your social security number is. Any government agency you’ve ever come in contact with, any financial institution, any health care provider, and 83.6 percent of all the hackers in China.
This is why you need to be suspicious of the Feds’ insistence, now, that Apple hack just one iPhone to aid in a criminal investigation. Before you can say “encryption” your entire personal life will be publicly posted on Facebook.
Oh, wait…
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