This posting is about protecting your privacy and anonymity whilst taking advantage of the ease of communication and ubiquity of the Internet. It discusses some work that I have recently completed on improving privacy on the web.
The purpose of this posting is to explore our complicity in undermining our own privacy and freedom. Many people seem to pay no attention and give this their privacy without a second thought.
How do we make it easier for “Them” to track us and compromise our privacy, and therefore give up our freedom? Read more…
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand The Fountainhead (1943)
You have no privacy. Get over it
Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems (1999)
In a world where the presumption to privacy leads to the assumption that you are a terrorist or criminal, you still have a right to privacy. Perhaps not a right that is demonstrated in law, but a right nevertheless.