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Hi Claude L (Len) Bullard- > http://news.com.com/Phishers+get+personal/2100-7349-5720672.html > > This is a predictable evolution of heavy web use. The more > we use it, the more the bad guys can know about us. Of course, > the next step in personalization will be text analysis of lists > such as this one to make more detailed profiles and predict > behaviors. That one isn't hard. Everything there is to know about you is already known. It's the new reality. Most everyone is grumpy about it. I'm actually kind of jazzed. In my worldview, the single biggest obstacle to global peace is the inability to detect and punish cheaters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating Phishing becomes a little bit less attractive when victims have the option of confronting the perps. Of course, the current connundrum is the assymetrical relationship between those who have the information (IRS, ChoicePoint, WalMart, GOP, etc.) and the rest of us whose assigned job is to be compliant prosumers to be exploited for profit. > More and more of the smart independent and capable people begin > to withdraw from the web and create better means to innovate and > insert technology without exposing themselves to it's childishness > and predatory behaviors. ... > > It's dreary, I admit it, but I think it imminent and unavoidable. Railing against the inevitability of life? All complex adaptive systems expand, contract, differentiate, die out, spawn new tendrills, etc. Cultural evolution is inevitable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_evolution There's currently 6.4b on the planet. It doesn't bother me that most of them don't want a close, personal relationship with me. It saves me the effort of telling them all to [expletive deleted] off. I'm grateful for the gated communities. In an ideal world, all the pathological antisocial people would all spontaneously opt to take themselves out of circulation. Cheers, Jason Aaron Osgood / Seattle WA zappini.blogspot.com
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