Introduction

Recently, another exploit was discovered on the Turkish government’s web-based platform “E-devlet”. On this platform is stored a high amount of personal data that belong to citizens living in Turkey, such as:

Their student certificate/student transcript

Criminal record

Name, surname, government ID, mother’s and father’s name

etc.

Unfortunately, this important data is not handled with care at all, and there’s been leaks in the past. In Turkey, as soon as you’re born, you’re already out in the open.

Introduction

According to a speech Aldous Huxley made in 1962, on the contrary to the novel 1984, in which control is forced upon society; an authority figure must receive at least some form of consent, to achieve control.

He tells that with pure force and terror, authority can’t last forever, that it’ll eventually be faced with some form of backlash. And that society must eventually be convinced and guided.

Upon these thoughts Huxley had written Brave New World.

This post covers Arthur C. Clarke’s second novel on the Space Odyssey Series. For my post on the first book, click here.

Introduction

Although this continuation covers some of the criticisms I’ve commented on the first novel up, it also has many plot holes and irregularities. Although managing to grab my emotions at one point, it has unfortunately not gone much further from that.

The Story

The novel starts between Dr. Dimitri Moisevitch and Heywood Floyd from the previous novel, after Bowman’s disappearance near the mysterious monolith (previously in Iapetus, author decides to switch its location to Io which is a moon of Jupiter), where they talk about the second mission to investigate the massive monolith and its surroundings.

The Story

The novel begins in an ancient timeline, where humans are still cavemen. It covers a brief period of how man started to evolve, after an unknown extraterrestrial and intelligent lifeform drops a monolith that seemed to have effects on man.

It focuses on the tribe’s leader figure. This figure is forgotten, once the book skips the timeline to the future where man has evolved. The modern man quite fits the 1990’s vision of how humans’ advancements would be in the future.

“Why should I care?”, is a question often asked to me when I talk about privacy. There are plenty of reasons to preserve your privacy, but before that I must present some definitions:

Privacy, anonymity, security, and keeping secrets are seperate concepts from each other. “Keeping secrets” can be defined as hiding an embarrassing situation or event from public knowledge.

What I’ll be talking about in this post will be privacy. Before continuing, I’ll also say that these concepts can be quite related to each other. If one aims to achieve privacy, one must aim for security aswell.

Before I begin, I will say that for most people this is more a case of damage control than absolute true privacy.

By damage control, I mean using “evil” services as little as possible and opting for better alternatives instead; and maybe still using some of these services.

Of course, I have also compiled some of the very best choices for privacy. These sacrifice convenience heavily, however.

I will begin to list with a very base level privacy, with convenience being first priority, and privacy second. As it goes on, these priorities will switch places.