kottke.org: PRISM in the 18th century

kottke.org: PRISM in the 18th century:

jkottke:

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about government programs like PRISM and how, according to defenders of such surveillance, they “only” collect metadata related to communications and not the content of the communication. In a clever article, Kieran Healy uses only the…

This digest is terrific, but I’m most appreciative to kottke.org for directing me to the complete article. Some of it gets pretty dense, but you can skim past the super tec...