“It’s Just A Bunch Of Numbers”
I wish I could remember where I saw that. Some apologist for NSA hoovering up everyone’s meta data, said the government wasn’t really spying on everyone. All they collected “was just a bunch of numbers”.
Why don’t we just publish all of his tax returns, after all they’re “just a bunch of numbers” including the Social Security Account Number, bank account numbers, and telephone numbers. If a “bunch of numbers” aren’t important, why does the RIAA get to sue people for copying songs, because they are “just a bunch of numbers” on a computer or CD.
Everything stored on a computer is “just a bunch of numbers”, which why they are called “digital”, and there are actually only two numbers involved – One and Zero. This entire web page, text, pictures, graphics, all of it is a collection of Ones and Zeros. Movies on DVD are One and Zeros. If they record your telephone conversations, they’ll be stored as Ones and Zeros, as will any video they take.
BTW, since I created some of the numbers they are sucking up, they are infringing on my copyright.
