Privacy on the Internet

[azeroth2b]

There is no privacy on the internet.

I was just reading some of the ignorant crap people posted back when theFaceBook launched their 'newsfeeds' for everyone. For those not familiar, the newsfeeds showed the recent activity that your friends made, such as joining groups, writing on walls, creating new friends, etc. Turns out people didn't like

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Internet age...

[mrapollinax]

Hmmm... when i started with the internet way back when I remember the revolution that V.92 brought to dial-up! The speeds and new frontiers it would open up! Back then the company I worked for was still considered a small local ISP (Earthlink) and AOL was king. ICQ was the en vouge chat program and the wonders of BBS and FTP ratio sites where Music of all kinds could be found were just getting started. I also remember the old Scour Peer-to-peer app! That was an awesome little app!

Does that make me an Internet Geezer?

[adventure1215]

The whole FaceBook uproar about the lack of privacy was pretty silly I think too. Obviously all they were doing was just putting the same information the people were entering into a more "readily-available" bit of information on the front page. It's amazing what people will react to if it's the same information presented a different way.

That said, MAN you're coming down hard on the youngsters :)
People like to get riled up about things when it's cool to do so and other people are doing it, but every case is a bit different.

I can't help but think that this entry is a bit of a reaction to my privacy entry of last week, but maybe I'm just on an ego-trip. If not, then I ask you this: Which person, or group who pioneered this infrastructure was dumb enough to think that it wouldn't be used maliciously? How could anyone be so naive? I don't presume to know the roots of the internet, but I do know that it wasn't created with some kind of "utopian sharing of information dream vision."

[mrapollinax]

The original Wide-Area-Network DARPAnet which the internet is derived from was closed circuit. Only Federal Governement, Military and a few select Universities. However once the network got too big for the government to fund it was haded over to the NSF and was maintained purely by higher education. In the late 80's and in the 90's the network had grown so big that the federal government mandated the network be opened up to the public for commercialization (thanks Al Gore!).

So in a sense yes it was created with a utopian sharing of information dream vision. The DARPAnet was designed to be a way for the collected knowledge of the US higher education and darpartment of defense to survive a sustained nuke campaign. It was a way to keep information flowing despite wide spread destruction.