ScientificAmerican.com's Larry Greenemeier talks about your privacy and the threats to it. See our privacy package online at SciAm.com, as well as the September special single-topic issue of Scientific American. Steve Mirsky reports
Technology's Toll on Privacy and Security
Computers, databases and networks have connected us like never before, but at what cost?
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August 18, 2008
Scientific American's Larry Greenemeier talks about your privacy and the threats to it. See our privacy package online at SciAm.com, as well as the September special single-topic issue of Scientific American. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI 'd like to know, what's the next generation of invasion? perhaps by this point we got the answer for today.and that was interesting to me that after this we might deal with humanoid hackers,self-organizing software that evolve and that was terrifying,'cause then it become more complex.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIn addition to talking about privacy, it is important to talk about anonymity. Lot of bad policy comes about by not distinguishing between the two. Everybody needs a right to privacy but not to anonymity. Junk mail is possible because we allow the sender to be anonymous.
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