Orwell would be surprised…

by danielday

Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2003-07-07 11:30:00

Parent message is 478850
to see the extent to which we contribute to our own loss of privacy. The computer operating system most of us are using to access this board is the one that’s both easiest and cheapest to use and implement – meaning that the security issues are least addressed due to that sort of thing requiring expensive labour to maintain. Moreover, most of us would have much more private lives if we took a bit of trouble to use something more complex than “password” for a password. Oh, and there’s also “default” and “guest”…