Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Data fascism

Life is too secure 

issue 19 January 2008

Life is too secure 

Security is a scary thing. I sometimes get the impression that my life, in so far as it is still my life, has been sealed in bubble wrap by major corporations and filed in a vault behind ten metres of steel.

It is obvious, for example, that the only people now capable of accessing my bank account details are criminal hacking gangs.

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