Thaths wrote, [on 5/5/2008 9:07 PM]:
I hope Cory's book is instrumental in creating a new generation of
civil libertarians and cyber activists (a la what _The Hacker
Crackdown_ did to a previous generation). However, I cannot help but
nitpick Cory's comment about 17-year-olds understanding the peril.
While they may know the dangers of surveillance by TLAs, I am amazed
to find the naivety with which my young nephews and nieces happily
live their lives publicly on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Orkut and a
dozen other social networking sites.
One way of looking at this is as follows:
If one wants to prevent people from knowing some particular thing about
you in an age where both ubiquitous onlines presence as well as
ubiquitous search/surveillance technologies are realities, then one
approach is to just make so much data available that it becomes
difficult to pick out the embarrassing bits.
Example:
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22&num=100
Unless you are specifically looking for it (i.e., you already know what
you're searching for) you will not find my n00b usenet posts in this mix.
Udhay
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