* <<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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