Several interesting articles on privacy and security matters penned by some well-known researchers and experts in the field. All appears in the August '08 Scientific American magazine. Figured I would pass along some of the more salient ones and recommend checking the rest out if/when/as you are interested or have the chance. Thought-inspiring, for sure. --rick Privacy in an Age of Terabytes and Terror By Peter Brown Introduction to SciAm's issue on Privacy. Our jittery state since 9/11, coupled with the Internet revolution, is shifting the boundaries between public interest and "the right to be let alone" ..... For all those reasons and more, the editors of Scientific American present this issue devoted to the future of what Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis called “the right to be let alone.” http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=privacy-in-an-age ... and some selected article links -- there's more on their site from this month's issue too .... Internet Eavesdropping: A Brave New World of Wiretapping By Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau As telephone conversations have moved to the Internet, so have those who want to listen in. But the technology needed to do so would entail a dangerous expansion of the government's surveillance powers http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=internet-eavesdropping < - > How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People By Katherine Albrecht A privacy activist argues that the devices pose new security risks to those who carry them, often unwittingly http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-rfid-tags-could-be-used < - > Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy? By Daniel J. Solove Young people share the most intimate details of personal life on social-networking Web sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, portending a realignment of the public and the private http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=do-social-networks-bring < - > How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security By Esther Dyson Many issues posing as questions of privacy can turn out to be matters of security, health policy, insurance or self-presentation. It is useful to clarify those issues before focusing on privacy itself http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-loss-of-privacy-may-mean-loss-of-sec...