If I didn't have to pay back school loans, it might be worth it. Planet without a connection to the rest of humanity. The Net, I could have been a digital untouchable, wandering the He could haveĬalled in my mortgage, discontinued my health insurance or Telephone conversations or siphoned off my E-mail. Worse ways he could have threatened my privacy.
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If our hacker had been truly evil and omnipotent as onlyįictional movie hackers are, there would probably have been even Number after another, half a dozen times. Its security folks moved us to one unlisted And hit usĪgain and again for the next six months. Line continued to hit us even after the tour ended. But the interloper who seized our telephone It seemed funny at first, and it gave us a swell story to tell Phone rung since Wednesday?") and got our phone service restored. This went on for several days until my wife and Iįigured out that something was wrong ("Hey.why hasn't the Messages (which to my surprise many callers, including my Hacker aplomb, the prankster asked people to leave their Number to an out-of-state answering machine, where unsuspectingĬallers trying to reach me heard a male voice identify himselfĪs me and say some extremely rude things. Just written about computer hackers) forwarded my home telephone On Thanksgiving weekend inġ995, someone (presumably a critic of a book my wife and I had Years ago, my phone, like Marley's ghost, hadn't given me a None of this would bother me in the least, I suspect, if a few Page, following them around Pathfinder's sprawling offerings. What they look at, timing how long they stay on a particular Knowing their names, I can peer over their shoulders, recording When people come to my Website, without ever "browsing" (it sounds so passive!) we're going public in a way We're all being watched byĬomputers whenever we visit Websites by the mere act of The Web, I know better than most people that we're hurtling Time Inc.'s mega info mall, and a guy who makes his living on I should also point out that as news director for Pathfinder, The faux Quittners get bored and disappear. Posting stupid stuff to bulletin boards or behaving in aįrightfully un-Quittner-like manner in chat parlors from here toīianca's Smut Shack. Someone will impersonate me, spoofing my E-mail address or I also hang out online a lot, and now and then on the Net Somebody ran up a $3,000 bill, but the nice lady from the fraudĭivision of the credit-card company took care of it with steelyĭigital dispatch. Vital numbers and used them to get a duplicate card. Instance, after I applied for a credit card at aĬonsumer-electronics store, somebody got hold of my name and I mean, I probably have more reason to think about this stuff Wired, underregulated, overintrusive, privacy-deprived planet. Right to it how it's dying how we're headed for an even more (TIME, August 25) - For the longest time, I couldn't get worked up about privacy: my still, we've got something in return-and it's not all bad Invasion Of Privacy Our right to be left alone has disappeared, bit by bit, in little brotherly steps.
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