MH> It's not even that they trust Facebook, but rather willingly spew some MH> of the most personal information for all the world to see.
Yeah, although I agree with someone else who suggested that the privacy part isn't the real issue. David Simon had an interesting take on this, at http://davidsimon.com/we-are-shocked-shocked/. A good quote about privacy in general: But be honest, most of us are grudging participants in this dynamic. We want the cell phones. We like the internet. We don't want to sit in the slow lane at the Harbor Tunnel toll plaza. My favorite, about the really important distinction between broad data mining and deep data mining: When the government grabs the raw data thousands of phone calls, they're probably going to examine those calls. They're going to look to establish a pattern of behavior to justify more investigation and ultimately, if they can, elevate their surveillance to actual monitoring of conversations. Sure enough. When the government grabs every single fucking telephone call made from the United States over a period of months and years, it is not a prelude to monitoring anything in particular. Why not? Because that is tens of billions of phone calls and for the love of god, how many agents do you think the FBI has? How many computer-runs do you think the NSA can do - and then specifically analyze and assess each result? When the government asks for something, it is notable to wonder what they are seeking and for what purpose. When they ask for everything, it is not for specific snooping or violations of civil rights, but rather a data base that is being maintained as an investigative tool. In any case, I agree with the pervious someone else who said that the secrecy is the real issue. (Although perhaps not so much an issue for sysadmins? Not sure.) -Josh ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
