Thank you for posting that link, polonus.
You know, I always have in my head something that took place a few years ago. Some CEO or president of some hotshot tech company was saying something about there being no more privacy in the world and folks should just get over it and it popped into my mind whether that fella would have a bank account and if he did if he had posted the account number and password and all that because there wasn't any privacy anyway.
It's funny how all these folks that make money from taking away our privacy still try to have some privacy of their own even while they are doing like that rich fella and extolling the benefits of us giving away our privacy, but they keep all their money privately stashed away in some bank that must have assured them that their money is safe because of all the safeguards of their private PINs and all that. Ironic, isn't it? There's no privacy for you, but don't touch my money.
The day when there really isn't a thing called privacy in the world will truly be a remarkable day in the history of the human race, because on that day we will all truly be equal.
The way I see it, the only reason these hotshot tech companies want to take away my privacy is because they want to make some money at my expense. And they are succeeding and the reason they are succeeding is because the lawmakers twenty years ago weren't paying attention and now it's too late.
Well, that is until there is that really, really massive solar flare that wipes out the Internet as we know it and Dr. Neumann gets his wish and we start all over again.
You folks do know about Dr. Peter G. Neumann, don't you?