Wife: Here’s your new credit card. It just came in the mail.
Husband: Great. Let me call up a stranger and read him my credit card number and PIN.
Wife: Good idea. That way if you forget, he can remind you.
Husband: Oh, and I’d better conference in an offshore backup stranger in Estonia. Can’t be too careful.
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If Our Current Attitudes Toward Privacy Had Existed Before The Internet