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The fundamental dilemma in privacy is the same as for security and Ken Thompson nailed it thirty years ago.[1] You have to trust somebody.

If I didn't trust the folks at Mozilla and Ghostery and NoScript more than Google, I'd run Chrome and leave JavaScript and Cookies on by default. If I trusted Facebook and LinkedIn more, I'd stay logged in. I don't so I don't.

[1]: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html



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