" ... in our terrible modern hell, it's possible for absolutely anyone to leave a comprehensive dossier of ultra- sensitive private information about themselves on the back seat of a bus just by misplacing their phone."
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/wireless_photo_transfers
the Eye-Fi, a digital camera storage and networking card: "So long as an active and reachable Wi-Fi network existed (or a photographer was carrying a portable Wi-Fi/mobile router like the MiFi), photos of alleged misdeeds would be immediately uploaded into the cloud, beyond the reach of law enforcement or criminals. Wresting the physical device from a pesky photographer and theatrically ripping out the incriminating roll of film, or nowadays more likely a memory card, would finally become futile."
"The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable." - Negroponte, 1996
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