RE: [projectvrm] Bruce Schneier on surveillance

["Crosbie Fitch" < >]

One cannot even have, let alone maintain, privacy on the Internet.

The Internet is a communications network, not a physical space inhabited by
people (with this natural right).

Even if you define 'privacy' as the aspiration (or state granted privilege)
to subject your confidants to bondage, viz binding non-disclosure
agreements, this is as doomed to failure as a privilege to prohibit people
from copying each other.

On the one hand we have the state and corporations wilfully flouting
citizens' expectations of discretion (inculcated by misnamed 'privacy'
policies), and on the other, we have citizens wilfully flouting the state
and corporations' expectations that their 18th century reproduction &
communications monopolies will be obeyed.

Garbage in, garbage out.

If you start with the garbage premise that physical privacy/property can be
extended into a public communications network, you'll eventually find out
that it can't be.

However, this is not the end of privacy. It's the end of the con. It's the
realisation that the emperor is naked - 'privacy' is not privacy.

That doesn't mean the end of devout believers in 'privacy' - who will
continue to insist it is the real thing and can and must be protected...