Nothing gets the digerati's juices pumping quite like privacy does.
It is the missing link, the unified field theory, the cure for cancer of the wired set. The digerati are the vanguard of a sort of privacy fundamentalism, which holds that privacy is not simply a function of democratic society but the very core of democracy itself. Judging solely from the cover of his new book, you'd be justified in thinking that it's time to add Simson Garfinkel to the ranks of the obsessives. Mercifully, this is not the case. What separates him from the pack, however, is his understanding that while these illicit uses of stored information may spark headlines, the real problem lies elsewhere.