Others may encourage both to flow together, viewing work and private life as a continuum, rather than as two distinct activities. What will be important is to offer people the ability and the tools to make these choices themselves, simply and fluidly. No one lacking specific permission to enter either town or castle property must be able to even begin to breach these walls. No way, no how. As the next section will reveal, we have a long way to go in actually building such walls.
Many holes are already in place today with many more awaiting new walls to puncture.
Microsoft Word, until the latest releases, captured random blocks of text from user's RAM and encouraged its transmission to the world. Millions of people who have not updated their copies of Word continue to share, unaware, their innermost private thoughts with business associates, competitors, and employers. Adobe products wander around home networks, entering our children's bedrooms, secretly pawing through their hard drives. Browsers, upon every release, offer new inadvertent security holes that enable strangers to catalog and capture contents of users' hard disks, etc. These subtle clues can enable the gifted snoop to reconstruct exactly what a user has been up to.