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> I wonder what the next 100, 500 years will look like, after all this has 'settled' down. > Breaches like this should be impossible as there should be designs

> I wonder what the next 100, 500 years will look like, after all this has 'settled' down. > Breaches like this should be impossible as there should be designs against it. I see it the other way around. Privacy is equal to security, it is only as strong as its weakest link, and there are many many “links” (attack vectors) and the amount of data you can breach with asymmetric attacks is unprecedented. By way of ergodicity, everything’s going to be leaked eventually, no matter how good our intentions are to protect it. If you take everything to its logical conclusion, it is inevitable that the concept of privacy is going to be absolutely destroyed in the future, and everyone will know everything about everyone at all times. The latest privacy laws are futile attempts to put the finger in the dike before it explodes; too little, too late.

PavlovsCat 7y ago
IMO the logical conclusion of current trend is people don't knowing each other, themselves, or what's in front of them. At first I wanted to add that some elites know everything about the majority, while being opaque to them, but on second thought that's utterly irrelevant in light of the fact that even the elite of the elite won't know their asses from their elbows. We'll die of thirst in an ocean of data, for want of information.
deepspace 7y ago
> it is inevitable that the concept of privacy is going to be absolutely destroyed in the future, Totally agree, and I am on record as saying that this will happen sooner than people think. Given the rate at which large-scale data breeches keep happening and the lack of ANY kind of consequences for companies and institutions who fail to protect data, I firmly believe that pretty much all personal data belonging to everyone will be either publicly accessible or available for sale by 2025 at the latest. For most people their address history, phone numbers, medical history, financial transaction history, account- and other ID numbers, browser/search history and every email they ever sent or received will be available for search or purchase.

PavlovsCat 7y ago

IMO the logical conclusion of current trend is people don't knowing each other, themselves, or what's in front of them. At first I wanted to add that some elites know everything about the majority, while being opaque to them, but on second thought that's utterly irrelevant in light of the fact that even the elite of the elite won't know their asses from their elbows. We'll die of thirst in an ocean of data, for want of information.

deepspace 7y ago

> it is inevitable that the concept of privacy is going to be absolutely destroyed in the future, Totally agree, and I am on record as saying that this will happen sooner than people think. Given the rate at which large-scale data breeches keep happening and the lack of ANY kind of consequences for companies and institutions who fail to protect data, I firmly believe that pretty much all personal data belonging to everyone will be either publicly accessible or available for sale by 2025 at the latest. For most people their address history, phone numbers, medical history, financial transaction history, account- and other ID numbers, browser/search history and every email they ever sent or received will be available for search or purchase.