n 1995, Marc Andreessen was terrified that Microsoft was going to crush Netscape. He was the executive shouting, "We need an 'easy' scripting language inside the browser right now, or we lose the Web Components war!"

He gave Brendan Eich the green light to rush it out the door in 1995. If Marc had just given Eich six months instead of ten days, the entire landscape of modern software engineering would look completely different.

Instead, we got a language where typeof null equals "object".

So yes, for the last 30 years, every single developer pulling their hair out over a web production crash has been collectively screaming exactly that: "WTF, Marc?!"

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

-Eric Huges

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