The article says "Revised (lightly) July 2003" but it seems nearly identical to what I remember reading in the book in his 1999. For me, the thing I took away f

The article says "Revised (lightly) July 2003" but it seems nearly identical to what I remember reading in the book in his 1999. For me, the thing I took away from it, back in 1999, was that privacy on the Internet was limited - it belonged only to those who were willing to jump through considerable hoops to get it. A few things, which Greenspun almost accidentally mentions in another of his essays, aided privacy in some contexts, especially multiple people getting grouped behind one IP address, via NAT or many other gateway interfaces. But the overall trend has been toward less privacy, since the mid 90s. It is interesting to think of the degree to which privacy has survived in some contexts, since its funeral ode was written 10 years ago.