> Van: Wagner Lipnharski <wagnerl@EARTHLINK.NET>
> Aan: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Onderwerp: Re: Internet Toaster [OT]
> Datum: dinsdag 15 februari 2000 16:26

Hello Wagner,

  It's not the connectivity that worries me, but the problem of privacy.
It is a sort-of-the-same problem as with credit-cards and the like.  It's
too easy to use them to know what a individual is doing, or where he/she
is.  And, taken that the people that want to know these kinds of things
(gouverment explicitely *included*) are mostly not "on your side", it
scares the hell out of me.

Regards,
  Rudy Wieser

> > "So why would Internet connectivity be a good thing for appliances?
>
> 100 years ago this same question would be:
> "So why would a flying vehicle be a good thing for the man?"
>
> 150 years ago this same question would be:
> "So why would electricity be a good thing for us?"