The chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems said Monday that consumer privacy issues are a "red herring."

"You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology.

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Kinda funny, it's like they saw the future, something along the lines of the NSA working under the sheets with Microsoft on their latest Operating System which millions probably billions of people across the world will use. Possibilities of back doors, monitoring software, and who knows what else. It's like running along the badside of ISP's monitoring clients, monitoring content, and throttling bandwidth.  They offer crazy 8Mb/s connections; but strip and throttle your ability to use it. Who saw all of this coming?  Well plenty of people saw tell tale signs, and when certain things happen it always makes you wonder what's next. I think the headline of that article puts on what most of us hate to think about, and taking from that- if you want privacy; you need to run open software and implement knowledgeable skill in protecting your self. I just brushed across that quote on OSNews.com and it just stirred my thoughts, lol.