* <<F2I.0028>> Encryption rights

- Take a point of view where you see writing as a kind of prosthetic 
memory, and expand that idea to encompass any kind of recording 
technology...
- Writing "hardens" memory, fixes it, externalizes it, makes it 
transmissible -- all good things -- but it also compromises privacy. 
- When you externalize private thought, when you harden it into a 
prosthetic memory, it doesn't stop being private.  
  + That transference from one medium (the brain) to another (paper, 
hard disk, whatever) does not constitute ~publication~. 
  + Externalizing thought to makes it ~insecure~, not public.
- Because the problem of information security is as old as writing, 
ciphers are as old as writing.
  + Writing itself might be seen as a kind of public cipher.
- Nature has thus far secured our biological memory.
  + At this time, there is no way to "read minds", to extract 
information from a brain against its owner's will.
- Encryption is simply a means of securing our prosthetic memory.

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