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This has never been difficult to achieve, why is this a big deal? Privacy never existed in the first place. People have been able to eavesdrop on homes by tar
by holidayacct 6y ago
This has never been difficult to achieve, why is this a big deal? Privacy never existed in the first place. People have been able to eavesdrop on homes by targeting pretty much anything containing metal coils (including appliances) with advanced HAM radio equipment since the early 1970s. We need to stop pretending there is such a thing as privacy and start actually looking at where scientific progress is at right now. If you actually get a basic grasp of physics, radio theory and electrical engineering you're going to find out exactly how little privacy we have.
- cjslep 6y agoWe can skip the formalities then! Please state your full legal name, date of birth, current address of residence, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, email addresses, passwords, your favorite type of pornography, and your mother's maiden name. Thanks in advance!
- holidayacct 6y agoJust because there is no privacy does not mean we should give away our privacy easily.
- buboard 6y agowhy should domain names have any privately identifying information with them anyway? it's not technically required.
- Santosh83 6y agoNot really. Given a panopticon with infinite resources, yes, nothing can escape them, but there is relative privacy which is valuable in its own way and needs to be defended lest we get that panopticon much sooner than otherwise. For example the requirement that every Joe hosting a small blog needs to provide his actual home address and phone number as per ICANN regulations is an insane and archaic holdover from the infancy of the WWW and needs to be seriously revised. An email ought to be sufficient for public access (though of course your Registrar will have the rest of the info in case you do illegal stuff on the domain)... Stuff like this is important to discuss and revise. The loss of privacy is the case of the proverbial slow boiling of the frog. Taking an absolute view means one of two options: Opt out of modern society altogether or don't even care for the barest semblance of privacy. Most people won't find either acceptable or even sensible.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoThere was no privacy since the stone age! Any door can be lock-picked, warrants can be obtained under false pretences, mail can be opened, etc.? The concept of protecting privacy is that targetting people is difficult and expensive. With custom radio equipment you can't spy on millions of people willy nilly because youll soon be bancrupt.