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Digital Ghosts: The Long, Cynical History of Data Protection
We think we invented data protection in the age of CPUs. We didn't. We just gave fancy names to tricks used by 17th-century mapmakers and paranoid monks.

We think we invented data protection in the age of CPUs. We didn't. We just gave fancy names to tricks used by 17th-century mapmakers and paranoid monks.

After weeks of dissecting corporate hierarchies and AI hype, let's ground ourselves in the basics of internet plumbing.