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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > > Security is a lifestyle. > > > > People laugh when I say this, do they laugh when you say it? > > you have to turn it around, "insecurity is a lifestyle", before people > will skip the polite (because they think you're joking and it isn't > funny) or nervous (because they think you're paranoid) laughter. I'll attempt this in the future :) Though normally I ascribe the laughter to my height... not my paranoia :) > > lately i've been thinking about trust and privacy and confidence, and > it's really icky how the more digital communications tools we get the > less right to control our information experience we have. e-mail is > among several things which hasn't further liberated any individuals but > which quite a few large companies consider a great boon -- precisely > because they can shift costs down into the noise level and stop > considering the desireability or usefulness of their outbound messaging. > but it's not just e-mail, it's on my phone and on my fax machine and > on my SMS PDA and oh what a mess. > > trustlessness is a lifestyle. > -- > Paul Vixie >
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