I’ve been sitting on this for a while: If you have twelve minutes to spare, please watch it. The amount of genuinely frightening information in it is staggering. Once you’ve watched it, take a walk around your own home. Which of the devices around you – many of which you consciously sought …
Category: privacy
Sep 22 2024
“No Private Life For You, Sports Star!”
For a long time now, one of the Left’s revered mantras is that “The personal is political.” This attempt to invalidate the idea of a private, personal life in which one’s affairs are wholly one’s own is seldom properly eviscerated by commentators and analysts in the Right. Yet it’s expressed in virtually everything Leftist …
Jun 26 2023
Some Thoughts On Technology
Even though I was once an engineer, I’m something of a dinosaur when it comes to acquiring and using new gadgets. I’m not a Luddite, but I’m far from a “first adopter.” My experiences as a user of relatively new technology have been decidedly mixed. Most people are unaware of the full range …
Mar 23 2023
From The Bearded Spock Universe: Public Servants Who Want It Kept Private
Cops are public servants, right? That’s what it says on the sides of the cars, anyway: “To Protect and Serve.” Is there any doubt about whom they’re supposed to serve? Isn’t that We the People, a.k.a. the Public? We do pay their salaries, after all. However, a lot of cops have become averse …
Feb 04 2022
A Completely Uncoded Message
If you’re not aware of them, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is one of the few organizations actively fighting for freedom of communication in today’s media, especially the Internet. They’ve made the unearthing, publicizing, and combating of threats to communications freedom and privacy their sole priority. They’re very good at it. So when the …
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