Top news? XP or Privacy?
Ok, after last nights 2600 meeting, some things started to worry me. One thing I was disturbed about, if you go to any of the top computer news sites, you will only see one big article about the ATA bill and three or so stories about Microsoft or XP. It makes me wonder about people not aware of how much privacy should be a priority right to us all.

I know that when you want convenience, you give us certain privacy. An example is the TiVo. You get customized recordings, TV Listings and Suggestions mad by the unit. Should it bother you that they have the ability to mine the data of your TV watching habits? Now that is just a limited way of data mining. Data mining is done all the time. How about the data mining capabilities in Windows XP? It gets a little scary.

Why am I worried? Well the new ATA act gives the government even more power to invade our privacy because it is so vague in what they are looking for. It also endangers hackers to be severly punished more than the criminals that rape or murder. I only ask, why are news sites going "blah, blah XP" "Blah Blah Microsoft" and only limited coverage about our rights.