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Keeping secrets

William Gibson speaking on secrecy:

It is becoming unprecedentedly difficult for anyone, anyone at all, to keep a secret. In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner. This is something I would bring to the attention of every diplomat, politician and corporate leader: the future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did.

Taken from Alex Steffen's talk at PopTech.

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This entry is part of the kottke.org weblog, of which Mobile phone companies are evil, irritating, and stupid defacto monopolies is the latest entry.

Within this weblog, this entry belongs in the Poptech 2006 categories and was published in October 2006.

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