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Can I blog now?

Posted by Payne on 10th December 2007

I may not be able to blog from now on.

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Power Corrupts

Posted by Payne on 6th September 2006

For years people have been saying that privacy freaks are, well, freaks who are worrying for nothing.

It’s easy to forget that power corrupts. Then you see a story like “HP admits to pre-texting board members” where HP hired “somebody to impersonate a fellow board member in order to get their phone records.”

It’s good to remember two things:

  1. This was happening at the top level of management. This is not a rogue middle manager who’s watched too many episodes of La Femme Nikita.
  2. From the story “Douglas says what’s unusual about the HP case is that the company got caught.”

COTSE accounts are fairly cheap. Some may say that CALEA is not pure of heart….

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