Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Salvador Mirzo Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:21:58 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: <87a5a8kzix.fsf@example.com> References: <67b21894$14$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <28416cc3-e819-886a-4025-2b2588f88663@example.net> <87a5ale0vg.fsf@example.com> <0310a638-3153-f886-5206-9bc8453c1f8e@example.net> <8734g9modu.fsf@example.com> <25c6c643-4e94-09d9-48e6-e9cf123e7cd4@example.net> <87seo8fgx8.fsf@example.com> <87eczscb6w.fsf@example.com> <87plj82ico.fsf@example.com> <1a64642e-3538-1363-1321-6760e5a417b9@example.net> <87v7szw9yv.fsf@example.com> <3cd7f616-d9a1-3dbb-2c9a-70001117f6af@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:21:59 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="45f237ca80d16a0ba3695b7d815e802a"; logging-data="2937480"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+bQqnnP+keRiNctExOcj80n0JfWMMCZ6M=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:C514iWOYIElfL/UXKqokpbnFBWQ= sha1:wjcSNP1YFMKke8mSRBwDIHMYYEg= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:26733 D Finnigan writes: > On 2/24/25 4:28 PM, D wrote: >>> >>> I'm not a religious person in the traditional sense of the word, but >>> turns out I find myself one of the most religious person I've ever met >>> because patience, perseverance, lack of ambition and a certain mastery >>> of the art of listening seem pretty religious to me.  For instance, >>> pretty much every religious person I know has at least one tattoo on >>> their skin.  I think that's totally non-religious because a tattoo >>> effectively destroys (at least a bit) something natural that took a >>> zillion years to be prepared---to protect the person.  I think that if >>> God speaks to us at all, it is done through the movement of nature. >> >> Never been a fan of tattoos. But in my case it is a conservative >> upbringing where tattoos where seen as low class. It is strange how >> things like that still stick with you. On the other hand, it is >> permanent, and since I don't have anything permanent to say, I don't >> really see why I should get a tattoo. > > Most intelligent people realize that the subcutaneous inks used in > tattooing cause cancer. It's not difficult to predict, when one > observes that most all foreign substances admitted to the body > (whether by breathing, ingestion, etc) lead to cancer. That's indeed the impression I get from reading on various health subjects as a lay person. Would you happen to know of a paper on such inks on skin and cancer?