On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
For another, most people have not themelves experience a security problem. While they understand how neighborhood thieves can break in and steal their stuff, they have no similar experience for their computer data. Unless and until this changes, they just won't care very much.
Of course, a substantial part of real privacy problems never manifest themselves as such. The bits leak and do their damage (Men with Guns mysteriously knowing precisely on whose door to knock, companies suddenly not having a job opening after all, competitors making highly informed decisions etc.) without people even realising what hit them. It's no wonder few people ever come to think of privacy, expect perhaps with financial transactions. Given the widespread habit of spreading VISA numbers around, even that isn't a given. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university