There's where the rubber hits the road, for me. Want total privacy? Stay off the internet. Way back in the dark ages of 1996 or so, I went to a very early web

There's where the rubber hits the road, for me. Want total privacy? Stay off the internet. Way back in the dark ages of 1996 or so, I went to a very early web security conference. At that point, it wasn't really a profession. It was junior devs like me, schoolteachers, all sorts of people who had the job of "web security" cast upon them. And we all commiserated about getting the same marching orders... our bosses wanted absolute and total security, with absolute and totally unfettered access to the internet, and without spending any money at all. The consumer privacy discussion today reminds me so much of that era. Everyone wants unfettered access to the internet, without paying for it, and without anyone selling your data.