Privacy & Me
March 7th, 2008 by 
privacyoriented
Being that this is my first blog entry, I thought I’d entertain the masses who do not yet read my blog with a brief tale of myself and how I came to be more “privacy oriented” than the average person.
First of all, I’m a 24 year old white boy from a “southern” state in the United States of America. I now live in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the “People’s Republic of” red-as-spilt-blood China. It’s a special area that the Chinese “communist” government decided to let roam free of their crazy, repressive rule. And that is to say that it doesn’t suck half as bad as “mainland” China (not that I’ve been there to confirm the reports of how bad it is). I came here early this year (2008) to get away from the endemic surveillance society rearing its ugly head in the US and to find a more “free market” oriented place. With what I think is coming to the US soon, I like to think it was a smart choice, but I plan to go back and forth often. I am able to do so because I got a bunch of inheritance money in 2007, and now I’m “well off,” as they say. ;P Since I’m in Hong Kong (in “the Orient”) and my blog’s main themes are privacy-related, I figured a good name for it would be “Privacy Oriented.”
As for my interest in privacy, that came about as a combination of a few things. Back in mid-2004, I was looking into doing things I thought might get me into trouble (mind you, nothing “immoral”) and not getting caught, and someone on a web forum I was reading mentioned J. J. Luna’s book, How To Be Invisible (Revised and Expanded Edition). I highly recommend this book, by the way. Using it will probably save my life multiple times in the future! Anyway, I bought it, read it and I was hooked. It changed my life and outlook indeed. Soon after, I found out many disturbing things about my own government (US) and in the process of reading and learning discovered digital gold currencies and many other privacy friendly online things that just fascinate me. It has been a learning experience, and I hope for many more years of privacy oriented living!
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