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Eric has a penchant for saying things he thinks before thinking about how they might be heard. He famously said, "There is no privacy, get over it. If you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about."


Wasn't that Scott McNealy? (Though, if I recall your bio from previous HN posts, you'd know far better than me.)


Right, Schmidt actually said: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...


Sure was. https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/


Just great, now I'm getting so old I'm mixing up my Sun Executives :-).

You are correct. I also believe Scott said something to the effect that IT was dead although we all know how good of a prediction that was.




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