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I consider myself pretty computer literate, but I have absolutely no issues with this. I support the EFF, but I think campaigning against this is both backwards

• gnosis 16y ago
  Never is a long time. Sure, it's probably not going to substantially change in the near future. But I think making people aware of the issues and why they matter is a good thing. Hopefully, with education and time people will start to care and maybe things will change. In fact, things are already changing. Not so long ago almost all Americans were completely computer illiterate, and you had to be pretty exceptional to even have an email address or own a computer, much less care about electronic privacy. Now most Americans own or at least have a computer, have email addresses, and are reasonably computer literate compared to how they were before the internet boom. And there are exposes on various privacy and security issues in the printed news and even on television. So slowly people are becoming more aware. I expect this trend will only continue to increase now that more and more of the population are born in to the internet age and with a computer virtually in their crib almost from the day they were born. Some of the most idealistic and privacy conscious people are the ones that are closest to technology and who are most adept at manipulating it and shaping its future. And their numbers are also growing as the general population becomes more computer literate as a whole, and as there are more and more abuses of privacy by corporations and the government. So I would not count the chickens of a privacyless age quite yet. Remember that not long ago most people thought the collapse of the Soviet Union was as incredibly far off in the future (if it would ever happen at all). And there are still people living who at one time thought that Segregation would never end. And yet both Segregation and the Soviet Union did end. Things did change. They changed drastically in ways that many did not foresee even a decade before.