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The VRM angle is that we favor distribution and decentralization.
As a side matter, I’m wondering if there is any way that Ashley Madison is not a smoking crater now.
The blog link goes nowhere. The latest news at the news link is from 2012.
Doc
On Aug 21, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Identity Coach <
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...because EVERYONE has something to hide.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/08/ashley-madison-hack-should-scare-you-too.html
In the bad old days (and today, in impoverished or corrupt
places), the mob often rules in matters of morality because the
state doesn't have the resources to enforce the laws of the land.
And in some ways, all of that '90s-era talk about the internet as
a kind of "Wild West" of unknown, ungovernable virtual space has
finally come to fruition. As Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum
write in The
Future of Violence, thanks to the wide distribution of
advanced technology these days, the means of disruption and attack
are now dispersed across the population. Threats from hackers (and
drones!) can come from any corner of the globe, and can affect
anyone on the globe. No matter how much any of us claims to have
nothing to hide, the fact remains that we're all vulnerable — and
hacking is the tip of the iceberg. Anyone with an email account, a
credit card, a Wi-Fi connection, or health records online is
exposed.
...
This isn't just a particularly suspenseful episode of Mr.
Robot we're witnessing. The world is changing quickly, and
real lives are being destroyed by the recklessness at play on
civic, corporate, and individual levels. Every other day, there
are new security breaches, and more private information is shared
with strangers. Simply proclaiming that all of our secrets will be
revealed, or naïvely asserting that you have nothing to hide —
this is the behavior of citizens who don’t know history, or who've
surrendered completely to a modern sense of learned helplessness,
or who simply don't care about protecting the weakest or the most
vulnerable among us. Yes, that includes cheaters. It includes all
of us. We are all vulnerable now. We are all at risk.
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