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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (5755)	5/13/2000 6:13:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. ~Anthony Robbins The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. ~Salvador Dali .......So I'm sitting here at the crossroads trying to decide the exact color of her rose pedals ....

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (5755)	5/15/2000 1:58:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 13018

"The very technology that was supposed to free us from mass society and the conformity of mass media has turned out to be as much a fishbowl as an information highway. In modern society, we have discovered that being free often means also being naked," writes Charles J. Sykes in his book "The End of Privacy" (St. Martin's Press). We know where you're going today John sat at his desk, staring down at the thick dossier he'd just received via messenger. A week earlier he had employed a Net-detective agency with a come-on that read: "The place to find, locate and track down anybody! We offer locate searches, marketing profile searches, DMV driver and vehicle searches, telephone record searches, financial and bank searches, criminal and property records, plus hundreds of free searches. Discover the secrets of the people with whom you associate." All they required was a name. John wasn't interested in snooping on sketchy neighbors, defaming some enemy, or digging for dirt on his boss. He just wanted to see what Big Brother and his extended family knew about him. As it turned out, to John's alarm, they knew a lot. The file filled 82 pages. The photo clipped to page one was from his driver's license. The basics were all there: home and e-mail address, phone number, Social Security number, height, and weight. Then followed more intimate items: his religious affiliation, the make and year of his car, the value of his house; the name and age of his son, where his son attends junior high, and his current teacher. It had the skinny on John's current job and salary, and every previous employer going back 10 years; everywhere he's ever lived, his current neighbors and their addresses and phone numbers; his military records; his cell phone DNS number; a summary of his assets, including such particulars as his account number; his mother's maiden name; and what he owes on his boat loan and on each credit card. The scope and breadth of his file went further. There were his telephone records, information on every traffic violation he's ever received, including an indecent exposure citation from his college days; his dental records and the prescription medicine he takes for hypertension and high blood pressure. It listed the names and e-mail addresses of more than 20 people he regularly communicates with, and the URLs of frequented Web sites, as well as how long he stayed at each address, and the CDs and books he bought online. With such particulars, one could determine what he had for supper last night, where he buys his gas, that he's a pack-a-day smoker, and how much he lost in Vegas last spring. They can see that he has a penchant for 12-year-old Scotch and German lagers, the Green Party, action-adventure films and the occasional peek at online pornography. Enemy of the Net It's the information age versus the surveillance society. by Jeff Barbian Puget Sound Computer User - May2000 pscu.com