B4 “Hell is Empty and All the Devils are Here”

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Presented at RochesterSecuritySummit 2015 by

Reg Harnish

The right to privacy has become a corollary to assurances of security. This perception is both counter-intuitive in the information age and ironic in its implementations. Security does not necessarily help or hinder privacy. Correspondingly privacy cares as much about security as it does about bowling. They are not often interconnected, and even when they are, they oscillate independently. Agree or disagree… because it doesn’t matter anyway. Privacy has become a currency – the only one accepted at Internet endpoints all over the world. It’s a pay to play world, and while we may reluctantly eat the cookies of our Internet favorites, we collectively decide that a diet of digital abstinence tastes far worse. Our data collectors lack transparency and we’re OK with that. We donate our deepest, darkest secrets to Google search histories while posting our rants about privacy rights on Facebook. The system is broken and that’s just how we like it.