Second law of infodynamics: the amount of leaked data can only increase. Ergo, all data will eventually be leaked.

Steve Rambam (i think he was a private investigator sharing a bit on his craft) had an enlightening and entertaining talk, probably 20 years ago, full of examples at the HOPE conference called "Privacy is Dead, get over it" I only watched it on YT but I remember his laws. The first law was: "All data will eventually be used for some unintended purpose". Like Domino’s customer databases being used by law enforcement, supermarket loyalty data sold to HMOs. There is a second law: nothing is ever thrown away / there is no forgetting.

yeah. keep your private shit private, internet is a public space.

it’s as simple as this View quoted note →