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Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where Cypherpunks Fail
scubacuda writes "Clay Shirky has an interesting take on encryption: 'The RIAA is succeeding where the Cypherpunks failed, convincing users to trade a broad but penetrable privacy for unbreakable anonymity under their personal control. In contrast to the Cypherpunks "eat your peas" approach, touting encryption as a first-order service users should work to embrace, encryption is now becoming a background feature of collaborative workspaces. Because encryption is becoming something that must run in the background, there is now an incentive to make its adoption as easy and transparent to the user as possible. It's too early to say how widely casual encryption use will spread, but it isn't too early to see that the shift is both profound and irreversible.'"
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - some goomer named Clay Shirky is still unknown as of this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will continue to not know who the hell he is - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's total denial of his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American cipher.
It was unintelligible unless you read it three or four times.
Wait for about three days and Slashdot should have a sufficent ammount of dupes to make it much more clear =P
You can say the same about cars, knives, guns and just about anything else.
Especially dihydrogen monoxide.
It's gunna make it real interesting for future historians to figure out how to decrypt and read those old data formats.
When people use encryption to hurt other people
You mean like when I throw my copy of Applied Cryptography at people's heads?
Trolling is a art,
like my raincoat!
i could live a little longer in this prison
dihydrogen monoxide
We've gotta ban that stuff, all the kids are gonna start using it, and then we'll never get them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5 doses today...
We've gotta ban that stuff, all the kids are gonna start using it, and then we'll never get them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5 doses today... Man, be careful! It can be fatal if inhaled! It causes erosion, and is a primary component in acid rain! It's been found in the tumors of terminal cancer patients! It contributes to global warming! It's one of the world's top industrial chemicals... and it regularly works its way into our water supplies!
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
I prefer Hydrogen Hydroxide.
"Now you see that Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb."
John
You mean like when I throw my copy of Applied Cryptography at people's heads?
Or force them to read it! :)
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
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> We've gotta ban that stuff, all the kids are gonna start using it, and then we'll never get them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5 doses today...
You think you're far gone? I'm cutting my DHMO with caffeine!
>> gonna start using it, and then we'll never get
>> them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5
>> doses today...
> You think you're far gone? I'm cutting my DHMO
with caffeine!
I find that when I dilute mine with malt whisky, I can manage with very little DHMO. Still, it's hard to cut back.
That is why I drink only Smirnoff 100 proof. 50 % less dihydrogen monoxide than tap water!
We've gotta ban that stuff, all the kids are gonna start using it, and then we'll never get them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5 doses today...
Wow, me too! But I think I've found a safe way of ingesting it - I mix it with hops and yeast, allow it to ferment in a large vat, and drink the resulting liquid! You can hardly even tell it's mostly dihydrogen monoxide! We must amend the constitution to ban straight dihydrogen monoxide, and allow only these 'brewed' concotions!
Yeah, it's in most milk these days too... more people drink it that way... tho if you're really worried about it, you can get reduced-DHMO or even DHMO-free milk at most grocery stores, though like organic milk, it's more expensive per ounce than milk with DHMO.
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