Safer Internet: Privacy, Security, Anonymity

Quotes | Definitions | Analogy | References

Quotes

• "You have zero... privacy -- get over it."~Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems, 1999
• Pres. Obama: "We don't have a domestic... spying program.
  There is no spying on Americans." ~interview with Jay Leno
• "Right' to privacy?... "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
  against unreasonable searches and seizures" ~US Constitution 4th Amendment
• "The only truly secure system is one that is... powered off, cast in a block of concrete
  and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards." ~Gene Spafford
• "Privacy is not... for the passive." ~Jeffrey Rosen
• "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,...
  in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
  ~"Why We Need To Understand Science", Carl Sagan; Spring 1990

Definitions

• Privacy: freedom from observation or attention
• Security: freedom from danger or harm
• Anonymity: freedom from identification or recognition {TCYOP-4: 17}
• Advice, settings and tools may affect more than one of these, and be repeated for different topics

Analogy: paper postal mail

• Privacy: postcard vs. envelope
• Security: stolen check or ID; white powder; locked mailbox
• Anonymity: no return address; PO box
• "Before" network diagram: {Figure 1. TCYOP-3: 44; TCYOP-2: 39; TCYOP-1: 39}

References

• {TCYOP-3: 15; TCYOP-2: 14; TCYOP-1: 17}
• sections: Refs:Analogies
• What is the Internet? OLLI course: Internet History and Issues
• topics: definitions, myths, quizzes
• The Privacy Project: introduction, article series NYT; 4/10/2019
• Note to Self podcast episodes
• The Privacy Divide Stories
• Wikipedia: Internet Privacy; Internet Security; Anonymity
• Wikipedia: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); eff.org
• HowStuffWorks: Computer & Internet Security
• HowStuffWorks: Top 5 Internet Myths
  Al Gore Invented the Internet; Your ISP is Tracking Your Every Move;
  The Internet is Filled With Sexual Predators; The Internet Will Make You Rich;
  Everything You Read on the Internet is True
• HowStuffWorks. Quizzes: Internet Fact or Fiction (10); Internet Myths (20);
  Internet Advanced (10); Internet World Records (10); Computer History (20)
• Internet - How does it work? video: 1:47
• The New Terminology for Privacy the language of digital privacy is changing; NYT; 4/10/2019
• A Bibliography on Privacy A running list of some of the best writing
  on the intersection of technology and privacy; NYT; 4/10/2019

Analogies

• Wikipedia: Internet metaphors; public-key cryptography: symmetric vs. asymmetric encryption
• Analogy between the postal network and TCP/IP layers: application, transport, internet, data link, physical