The future of privacy and slow processor speeds

[Neil Crellin]

Sorry Lee, just because you read something recently in the paper,
doesn't make it a current event. Followups set.

-Neil Crellin <ne...@stanford.edu>, net.current-events czar.

lee...@nottowayez.net (Shelton Garner) writes:
> Reading in the New York Times recently, I saw a story about how many
> big Web sites are beginning to increase the amount of snooping they do
> you use them. Ergo, they know where you go on the sites, etc.
>
> Well, where does this all end? Is it possible that any personal
> freedom gains we've achieved due to the Net will be negated by
> increasing processors speeds. The State will know when we speed, or
> make it so we can't speed, etc.
>
> Will it all happens so gradually we won't realize it?
>
>
>
> L. Shelton Bumgarner -- Keeper of the Great Renaming FAQ
> Nattering Nabob of Narcissism * http://www.nottowayez.net/~leebum/
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> search engine will retrieve only resumes." -- Schachter's Hypothesis

[Shelton Garner]

[YoYo]

Shelton Garner <lee_s_b...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Well, where does this all end? Is it possible that any personal
>freedom gains we've achieved due to the Net will be negated by
>increasing processors speeds. The State will know when we speed, or
>make it so we can't speed, etc.
>
>Will it all happens so gradually we won't realize it?

More likely, it'll happen because most people don't care enough to do
anything about it.

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