flexd wrote: > Wow that's alot of replies for something i wrote so quickly. > I didn't really mean it all seriously, and im all for being > untrackable and all, like you guys say. > > But if they wanna track me, then fine, they can if they want. > > I just pity the fool that's gonna sit and monitor my boring life. The purpose of privacy is not to protect the majority from being snooped on. The majority is immune from tracking, simply for not stepping out of line. The purpose of privacy is precisely so that people CAN step out of line. Most of the people who do not conform to what is called "standard practices" at the time are weirdos, imbalanced or criminals, but every once in a while the people stepping out of line is doing so because they truly and honestly see something the majority doesn't. If they persist enough, their "non conformist" behavior of today will become the norm tomorrow, simply by dint of it being better.
And this is where giving up privacy really hurts everyone, as a society. It makes stepping out of the norm even more difficult than it already is, and thus sells our tomorrow for some theoretical gains today. If people were discouraged from stepping out of line 20 years ago, we wouldn't have free software today. Shachar _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
