Re: Assange believes too late for any pervasive privacy

Assange is entirely correct. The reason is the distribution curve for sensors and, in particular, everything -- and I mean everything -- about "personalization" is simply surveillance. I may be able to hide from The Man, but I cannot hide from my friends and neighbors, and they are increasingly festooned with the infrastructure of total information awareness. Poindexter was simply ahead of his time. The private sector will do with bread & circus what the mil sector can not do with black budgets; the private sector will own 95% of the listening posts and will buy their freedom of motion with yours. --dan