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Pendulum Swinging Toward Privacy
netbuzz writes "The New York Times reports this morning on a gathering movement to remove Social Security numbers from online public records. While justifiable, given the reality of and concerns about identity theft, it also doesn't take much to imagine how such concerns will be abused by public officials who are strapped for cash and/or ethically challenged."
What are the implications of this for Jose Cucaracha, his wife, six children, and one fetus?
welcome to reality
in reality, you can have convenience and reliability
or you can have privacy and security
you can't have both at the same time
welcome to the real world
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
this is about as much of a "swing" towards privacy as a three man office going to linsux is a victory for open source while 100 windows pcs are being installed into a school that never had them. you idiots forever think that these "victories" are real. so pathetic.