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Privacy, Montana Style

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 by Harry Lewis
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One Response to “Privacy, Montana Style”

  1. Greg Morrisett Says:

    I’ve been thinking of starting a “noise” business. The idea is that you would pay me to add so much noise to your digital footprint, that no one could find the signal they were looking for. Have some embarrassing friends? We’d add a million links so they couldn’t find what they were looking for through simple browsing. Have an embarrassing photo show up? We’d flood the net with obviously photoshopped pictures of you (e.g., hanging out with Elvis) so you could claim the embarrassing one was also doctored.