pALEPHx wrote:

When your lying leads teenagers to commit suicide, then some serious attention SHOULD be paid to your online activities. I don't think it sets a precedent, but will definitely lead to a lot of TOS revisions.

I have to agree with the concept and reiterate that anonimity did not exist in the historic human condition; in village/tribal culture everyone knew who you were and what you did.  The internet is simply taking us back to that.

orangeplus wrote:

People who know how will still be able to get away with it safely. Not until they create an entire new network stack, from Data Link all the way to Presentation, the internet just isn't built for it.

Thank you for re-iterating that every rule has an exception and every exception has a rule - care to share anything else Captain Obvious?

Taint wrote:

Feeling cranky tonight, Emmie?

Yup, X had that heart attack and fucked up my entire schedule.

Got something to say about that?

Taint wrote:

Only that if X is someone close to you, I'm sorry to hear it and hope they recover fully. Otherwise, I have no idea what you're talking about.

X=mother of my children


So yes, I am a grumpy old bastard tonight.  Not intentionally mind you... but the facts are the facts.

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orangeplus wrote:

People who know how will still be able to get away with it safely. Not until they create an entire new network stack, from Data Link all the way to Presentation, the internet just isn't built for it.

True enough, but how many people do know how, and how many of them are too lazy to bother?  Hell, I don't even bother to proxy.  Much.

The validity of privacy went out the window 20 years ago... credit cards were simply too convenient.  The irony is that a credit card is probably the most secure form of accreditation we currently use in the US.   As biometric tech matures our identities will be more secure though not necessarily any more private.

The internet came along and made things infinitely worse. If offered most people a false sense of privacy though perceived anonymity, but it also gave us Google and Google Earth, Zabasearch, on-line criminal checks, sex registry offender databases, idiots documenting their idiocy on facebook and myspace, Cruelies outing Horse and Meg Kelso and so forth.

We live in interesting times.