What year is it again?
August 22nd, 2010, 12:37am by JakeAlways a good time for hyperbole.
The computer received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that was made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as one remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, Google plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live–did live, from habit that became instinct–in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:43 pm
If we learn anything from the teachings of Daniel Suarez, it’s that the information is out there and privacy is an illusion. We can continue to toil under that false sense of security until the bad guys figure out how to exploit it, or we can just accept it, get it all out there, and democratize the flow of private/public information. In that respect, Google is only helping us help ourselves :).