Home search Collections Sign in or create an account Medium site navigation Zach Weinersmith on Jul 9 7 min Info History Cancel Publish changes Don’t write alone Copy and send this draft link to anyone you want feedback from. They’ll be able to leave you notes before you publish. Featured post Next in trending Zach Weinersmith in The Nib 7 min read Doubtless, the founders of America— a notably prescient group — anticipated that one day it would be possible to come into your home via fiber-optic wires, view your correspondence without touching it, and slip out the electronic equivalent of the back door, unnoticed. Or maybe not. If they had, perhaps they wouldn’t merely have granted us security over our persons, houses, papers, and effects, but also our servers, phones, routers, and tablets. But, remember, these were primitive philosophers. So far as I know, Ben Franklin never even owned ...