18 May 2006

What Do You Have to Hide?

Trust one of my digital heroes - Bruce Schneier - to provide a definitive rebuttal to the tired cliché trotted out by all those who would put us under surveillance: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" Basically, it comes down to the fact that

Privacy is ... a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

Read the piece for Schneier's paean to the "eternal value of privacy", as he puts it.
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous2:08 am

    hey!

    this is a lil off topic - but i just read yer greatest OS*

    i always felt ValDocs which came bundled with the Epson QX-10 was amazing!!!

    unbelievably EZ to use! - especially compared to crapola like MS-DOS!

    ;))

    Chris Rutkowski was the dude behind this incredible software*

    i think it was compiled in CPM by Digital Research.

    sadly the world went PC & DOS*

    ;))

    sigh.........

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