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Schneier On a Generation Gap In Privacy
goompaloompa writes "In the Japan Times, Bruce Schneier writes that a passing conversation online is not what it may seem and that maintaining your privacy is becoming even more difficult as social media and cloud computing become the norm. Furthermore, while users in Japan may think they are secure, their level of protection may vary when the computers that store their data are overseas. At the root of the problem is a new generation gap: old laws incapable of covering current-day scenarios. Quoting: 'Twenty years ago, if someone wanted to look through your correspondence, they had to break into your house. Now, they can just break into your ISP. Ten years ago, your voicemail was on an answering machine in your office; now it's on a computer owned by a telephone company. ... We need comprehensive data privacy laws, protecting our data and communications regardless of where it is stored or how it is processed. We need laws forcing companies to keep it private and delete it as soon as it is no longer needed, and laws giving us the right to delete our data from third-party sites. And we need international cooperation to ensure that companies cannot flaunt data privacy laws simply by moving themselves offshore."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
What you can do is to buy more screen space and time for your opponent's topless photos, accompanied by even more sinister music, and distribute bumper sticks and shirts that say "T is for Topless. T is for Terrorist." and "I'll be sober in the morning - virtue is lost forever"
We're just heading for the gutter faster.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Winston Churchill?
You're right! That damn map at the mall kiosk ... always knowing exactly where I am!
Bark less. Wag more.
Naked was great until we ate from the Tree of Knowledge (stupid women... they're inferior for a reason). Once we had knowledge, we could know shame and sin, and nakedness leads to sin, so on go the clothes.
No, I'm not making this shit up. Someone about 1600 or so years ago made it up first.
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
"Some 20 years from now, the confirmation hearings for supreme court justice nominations will get to be really interesting. "
Senator, let me ask you just this one question: Are you now -- or have you ever been -- a tank for the Horde?
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC