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Vint Cerf: Everything we do will be ERASED! You can't even find last 2 times I said this

Warm Braw

Vint says a lot of stuff...

He said that personal privacy was essentially over because of social networking.

He also said that he would have liked to make the Internet more secure against interception, but wasn't allowed to as he was, er, working on a secret program on behalf of the NSA.

And now he wants to record for ever the information he thought should remain private and secure?

The only thing standing between us and the perpetual violation of our privacy for generations to come is bit rot, so long may it continue.

There's only any point in archiving stuff that the small number of people who might have the interest and resources to trawl through it in the distant future will have the time to read. So someone might as well sit down and copy the best bits out onto physical vellum - we already have far more historical archive material than will ever be usefully consulted, we don't need to expand it by orders of magnitude every few years.

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