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   Sumana Harihareswara (brainwane@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 06:37:44 JST Sumana Harihareswara

   • Danny O'B

   today I again had occasion to refer to @danny's 2003 piece https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2003/10/13/the-register/ on private communications

   "...we have conversations in public, in private, and in secret. All three are quite separate. The public is what we say to a crowd; the private is what we chatter amongst ourselves, when free from the demands of the crowd; and the secret is what we keep from everyone but our confidant. Secrecy implies intrigue, implies you have something to hide. Being private doesn’t." [1/2]

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     Sumana Harihareswara (brainwane@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 06:37:42 JST Sumana Harihareswara

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     "There are only two registers on the Net; public and secret. In the public sphere, everything you say is for everyone. Talk in the secret register, and you have something to hide.

     And this is what the end of privacy means. It means the end of the *private* register. Not everything that is private is meant to be secret, meant to be hidden. It’s just not intended to be public. That grey area is fading, and soon it will be gone."

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     Internet Rando (mousey@mastodon.seattlematrix.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 13:27:49 JST Internet Rando

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     @brainwane heck yeah i have stuff to hide!
     - credit card numbers
     - medical records
     - ideas for novels/products
     - family communications
     - bank account details
     - property deeds

     You can't have *privacy* without *security*, but you *can* have security *without* privacy.

     Be most wary of those (systems) which would obscure this fact.

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