Thoraiya DyerAre you a victim of online surveillance?
December 1st 2006 08:21
filed under FREEWARE FUTURE
It's not like online intrusion is as unavoidable as biometrics. But, even while you're reading this, you must have already logged in as a member to a couple of porn websites, checked for porn spam in your e-mail, dropped by a virtual chatroom to date a chatbot that leads you to a porn website, or bought a porn DVD online using your credit card.
In other words, you've provided a great deal of information about yourself to people who could be keeping track of your online porn affairs.
Exposing a bit of ourselves online is unavoidable, true. The virtual world is as real as the real world anyway! The borders have been blurred. You're not required to own a personal blog diary in order for anonymous entities to get an idea of what you're doing online, let alone your boss. Online casinos do it. Advertisers do it. Privacy? Fuhgeddaboutit!
I had imagined this would actually spawn online ciphers and new esoteric Internet languages which only certain online cliques will be able to decode. Removing cookies, clearing caches, and deactivating keyloggers and surveillance software systems are never enough to keep the privacy intact.
In the end, there's still no such thing as secure information online. I've merely circumlocuted and went back to where I started.
Up next:
The Internet: The Truth is [not] out there
LINKS
futureforall.org
http://reality.media.mit.edu/
It's not like online intrusion is as unavoidable as biometrics. But, even while you're reading this, you must have already logged in as a member to a couple of porn websites, checked for porn spam in your e-mail, dropped by a virtual chatroom to date a chatbot that leads you to a porn website, or bought a porn DVD online using your credit card.
In other words, you've provided a great deal of information about yourself to people who could be keeping track of your online porn affairs.
Exposing a bit of ourselves online is unavoidable, true. The virtual world is as real as the real world anyway! The borders have been blurred. You're not required to own a personal blog diary in order for anonymous entities to get an idea of what you're doing online, let alone your boss. Online casinos do it. Advertisers do it. Privacy? Fuhgeddaboutit!
I had imagined this would actually spawn online ciphers and new esoteric Internet languages which only certain online cliques will be able to decode. Removing cookies, clearing caches, and deactivating keyloggers and surveillance software systems are never enough to keep the privacy intact.
In the end, there's still no such thing as secure information online. I've merely circumlocuted and went back to where I started.
Up next:
The Internet: The Truth is [not] out there
LINKS
futureforall.org
http://reality.media.mit.edu/
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