Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Week 13 Muddiest Point

"Helloooo Ladies..." it's the muddy llama! Watch out now, don't let the Thanksgiving triptophan goggles fool you: he's a dirty boy underneath that handsome exterior.

Reading the No Place to Hide site, I got to thinking: how much more difficult is it to hide when you engage in electronic forms of communication? Should those wishing to send secret messages revert to rotary phones, carrier pigeons, and paper airplanes if they want to keep their information private?

1 comment:

Susan Herrick-Gleason said...

A few more ideas:

-Buy your food from your local small farms (it's better for you and for the environment, anyway).
-Furnish your house entirely with antiques (on trade-in credit, ideally).
-Buy your books (with cash, until they start tracking all the dollar bills) from thrift stores and library sales or (on trade-in credit) from used book stores. Yard sales are great, too.
-Walk or ride your bike instead of driving, and preferably in the woods or on back roads in the middle of nowhere (the air's better there, anyway).
-Even better than cash: barter for your stuff (and services).
-Talk to people in person instead of calling or emailing them.
-Get to know people in your community; nobody who actually knows you will be fooled when someone steals your identity, and you will need someone to take you in and feed you when your credit cards no longer work.
-Don't cross the border at an official border-crossing place. Trek through the wilderness; those people who are so good at tracking you electronically are not so great at tracking you by your footprints through the bogs.

I really like the carrier pigeon idea.