> My credit score is 850. What now? Name, address, phone, SSN, credit card numbers, tax returns, itemized income statement, health records, SMS logs, phone log

> My credit score is 850. What now? Name, address, phone, SSN, credit card numbers, tax returns, itemized income statement, health records, SMS logs, phone logs, email account exports, relationship history. > It's only considered "sensitive" information because our society is incompetent and corrupt. "Society" is an abstract concept, and the concrete reality that it represents is a large collection of people who are mostly strangers to you, and whose interests and values are by no means guaranteed to align with yours even when they are totally honest. > The secrecy that protects the rich and powerful is an artifact of that corruption. The same secrecy protects you and me. And at the end of the day, I don't care one bit about "the rich", and "the powerful" are exactly who I want safeguards against. > In a just and competent society ...the streets would be paved with gold, champagne would flow from the taps, we'd all live to be a thousand, and our pets would speak to us in perfect English. > none of that information could be used against us You are of course free to use HTTP instead of HTTPS for all of your web-based data transmission. > If you have to hide to feel free, you're not actually free. I think I'll stick with imperfect freedom in this reality over perfect freedom in a nonexistent one.