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“My nerd parts are all tingly!”

Bruce Schneier’s latest essay on privacy is a thing of beauty:

“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either now or in the uncertain future — patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.”

From the pleasebeajoke files.

If they can reproduce the rest of the novel as faithfully as these posters we’re in for a hell of a movie.

After locking up after work on Friday I walked back to my car, which had been parked in a side street close to my workplace – I was a little distracted typing something on my iPhone, so it was only when I was standing right next to the empty space where my car should have been I realized it wasn’t there.

I think I stood there for a good couple of minutes trying to think where I had actually parked before reality dawned on me and I muttered a few choice expletives. I made the requsite calls to the police and my insurance company and an officer is coming round tonight to take my statement. It’s been flagged stolen so if it passes any traffic cameras etc. it should trigger an alert, but i’m not getting my hopes up.

I took great care of that car, I think my worst fear is a call saying they’ve found it burnt out somewhere after a joyride, that would be worse than never seeing it again.

Bastards.