Jonathan Zittrain quotes

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems. (Jonathan Zittrain)

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

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The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

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Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

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Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

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Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

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The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

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Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

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When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.

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The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

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