Who cares about privacy anymore?
Tuesday, December 7th, 2004Spyware on My Machine? So What? (found through slashdot)
This is a scary notion – people are giving in to the adware products willingly. They’re just giving away their personal informations, online behaviors, and what not… Where did the notion of privacy gone anymore?
As an opensource lover, it’s a pretty painful blow. People are very unaware of the free software that’s really free, with no catches.
On top of that, it’s scary that people are more willing to install these software on their work machines. Not only they don’t care about the privacy, they don’t care about the company confidentiality either? Hrm!
I’ve once used this quote in my blog:
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Now this quote is taking a completely new meaning. Whoa…