Thursday, October 04, 2007

Spam, friend or foe?

I've been doing a lot of hush, hush kinda stuff lately; and most of the time it's boring so I end up thinking. Recently I've been taking a harder look at proper javascript, and the actual ratio of how many servers there are in the world, and how many hackers. I could be all internet like and put numbers and calculations and pretty little Excel (or if I borrow Ron's MacBook, Numbers) charts, but I won't. This is what I'm thinking...

I'm not a criminal so I usually don't really care if Google index's this, or doesn't actually delete my email there, or any other company for that matter. Why? Well, even if I was a criminal, there was a good chance I might get overlooked. I'm not going to start fantasizing about how a hacker criminal could hide amongst the buzz of spam, but rather, the right to privacy in the world.

In my personal logic tree of life, I actually believe that the steady drop in crime throughout this century and last was due to the refining and longevity of communication awarded to the human race, and as of late, the issue of presence. I find this all gives some humans more then others the ability to solve normally basic problems that would sometimes result in heartache and frustration. Basic outlet's for anger and criticisms are now a stock of anyone with a light sensing device and another device (Best Buy) to display the visions. The town chant has dissolved into video comments left like notes on the fridge, and the violence died down to 'I no were u live.' brought to you by Google Earth™ and Darpa's need for a nuclear proof addressing system for small bits of bytes. Even people normally considered prime electorates for a prime stoning, are stoned and getting deals with CBS for a reality TV show.

If privacy is concern, I say turn on 50 radios in your room on different channels and pretend to be the government, trust me it's barrels of laughs. Can you make out anything? No? Good, you win! The basis for this experiment is that from the 50's to the 90's this kinda thing was impossible. No-one could cut through enough interference to actually track much. The only reason they'd track overseas calls (you hear that all the time, 'I'm in ur telco, stealing your voice') was because it was expensive and most likely used for sinister use if it wasn't some elite paying loads for long distance calls.

Years after 2000, involves computers, of course...

Someone important to me once told me something that I've kept close. 'Humanity will never achieve full Artificial Intelligence. Why? Because in all essence a human cannot teach a mistake; and that's humanity.'

Sure, there is thousands of computers processing your calls, your mail, your movements, but consider this; as the world grows so do the sources of information. The internet is not stable enough to actually help tracking any of this data, just like the fifties, even internationally; because we can't help but make it. So join in with me and help make everyone's life private; can anyone MSN me?

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