What part of "privacy is dead" do people not understand? You think multi-core processors in your iPhone or android is to make the calls more clear? How many people here can say they haven't integrated a "smart" Apple or Google phone into their lifestyle? Someone with more HN love should post that poll.

Everyone needs to reconsider their worldview and a few important definitions they hold. One of those is privacy.

My definition of privacy: anything I relay to ANY one person is no longer private. What's the old saying about three people keeping a secret? Information wants to be free and privacy is not its natural state. It's always been this way, but the physical barriers to diffusion have been completely decimated in the past two decades.

This is not a mere blip in a long term trend, it is fundamental, IMO.

That being said, I believe there are new values we can all embrace to make the most of the state of the human experience today. Perhaps someone should can a thread on Internet values for the 21st century and beyond.

PS - Anyone ever wonder how MSFT got an anti-trust pass in the US, but not in the EU?

"In the interest of national security..."