Merry Christmas Eve!
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/12/24/ap2413667.html
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f3fe9c4a-4bd1-11da-997b-0000779e2340.html
By now, most people have heard about the debate over eroding privacy rights. The implication is that the government will be able to monitor and keep track of people, leading to a surveillance state where the feds can keep track of what we do and monitor all our actions. What gets lost in discussions about this idea is the question of what exactly it is that we need to protect.
Do we have the right to anonymity?
Anonymity is a different idea from privacy, even though it gets lumped into the same category. For example, if I’m a politician, do I have the right to hide my personal life from the media? If I’m an anarchist, do I have the right to post provocative anti-government messages in newsgroups?
I don’t think most of you readers are CS majors, but if any of you are students in university taking CS classes, this should warn you: don’t cheat on programming assignments.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html
This guy is saying exactly what I think every day.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
http://creativebits.org/angry_and_nice