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The end of privacy was a foregone conclusion: with such rapidly falling cost for video and audio hardware, the only way to keep privacy would be totalitarianism.

Oh, the irony...

It should be mentioned that Rop admitted at last year's congress that they were too pessimistic and that things are actually better than they looked back than. The German constitutional court has been surprisingly effective in stopping many of the government's surveillance initiatives, which no one really expected back then. Of course, none of this really contradicts your main point, but I thought the change of opinion of the speakers might be interesting.

I really like the "Flash version 9,0 or greater is required". ;-)