- Doxing: yet another reason for privacy.
- OTOH, it’s so entertaining when one corrupt politician decides to take revenge by outing a bunch of others.
- Fourteen strange but true facts from tech history.
- “What we owe the MythBusters.” A renewed interest in and understanding of the scientific method.
- Two traits of lasting relationships.
Politicians fighting and “outing” each other… possibly the major source of hope for the rest of us – and great entertainment. 🙂 Yes, they all want to completely control our lives and steal everything we produce… but they do not want to share. Thank goodness.
Just imagine these megalomaniacs actually all working together, the disaster that “efficient” government and universal plans would be…. The horror of it! Yet the “one world order” is not really possible because that will never happen. Oh, some factions may well try it, but they’ll always be at war with each other. Every one of them wants to be the king… alone.
I like that it was possible to disconnect all of Norway, by unplugging one cable. For most of us home users, that’s still the ultimate defense.
Two traits of lasting relationships.
Think on that. Now compare it with the SJW movement.
[shudder]
I have to wonder if another reason he was able to pull the plug and disconnect a country was because there wasn’t a long line of Norwegian lawyers waiting to sue for damages 🙂
One of those strage facts from tech history: the first-ever web page at CERN: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Just as “those who drone, will be droned,” “those who dox, will be doxed”.
As to early web stuff, I like the story of “Les Horribles Cernettes”, first photo ever posted on the web:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Horribles_Cernettes
I was a computer service guy working on minicomputers (“array processors”) when I saw my first mouse, on that dinky little first Mac. I remembered snorting at the idea that this toy could ever approach the utility of text entry and dumb terminals. 🙂
Just as “those who drone, will be droned,” “those who dox, will be doxed”.
Paul — If you mean this in a general “he who lives by the sword will die by the sword” way, fine. But that’s a meaningless generalization when it comes to real life.
I have yet to see any Afghan peasants launching drone attacks on the Pentagon or CIA and I’ve never heard of a doxing victim who had the skill, wherewithal, position, and desire to get revenge by doxing the person who did her. And even if such things ever happened, it would accomplish nothing toward undoing the harm of the initial attack.
So what are you getting at?
P.S. Les Horribles was fascinatingly funny.