begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:33:20AM -0800: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > No, the voyeurs. "Information wants to be free!" > > I think information does want to be free.
Some days I wonder. Information wants to die.... errors compound, corruption can't be reversed, and finding the relevent data takes a lot of effort, requiring all sorts of meta-data for indexing. > But not for the reasons people > usually give. Private information is like water sitting in a container > on the top of a hill. It really "wants" to go down the hill to the > lowest point it can find and will do so at the earliest opportunity. ...to mix with the dust and become mud. :) > Similarly, information wants to be known by everyone and if you give it > an opportunity it will slip out and nothing can bring it back. One would think that a game of Telephone wouldn't be so amusing if that was the case. > But to simply reply "So what is your SSN?" is a non-sequitur. I suspect that the "information wants to be free" meme isn't describing a feature of information, but is merely a side-effect of Murphy's Law. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
