Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants
In an era in which everything is archived and tracked, the best way to maintain privacy may be to give it up. Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable. If I cut out the middleman and flood the market with my information, the intelligence the F.B.I. has on me will be of no value. Making my private information public devalues the currency of the information the intelligence gatherers have collected.
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A professor decides to flood FBI with the data about his private life. First, one has to have lots of free time to do so. Secondly, I think he underestimates computational power the Big Brother has at its disposal.
