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1975 Article On Internet Spying Not Written By Time Traveler, Probably
People often think about internet spying as relatively new. But the internet was used for spying before we even called it the internet—and when we look back at news articles from the era, we can’t say we weren’t warned. As just one more in a long list of examples, take a December 1975 article by Tad Szulc in The Washington Monthly. Szulc explains that this new thing called the ARPANET (the packet-switched precursor to our modern internet) had the potential to be used by...
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Oh we were warned all right.