his is the case with people like jake davis when they were found out to be the real topiary. nobody wanted to be doxed but around. being tossed in hindsight, that raises a lot of questions about privacy. a lot of think for these guys anonymity was the one experience privacy when corporation and governments us than ever t before. last december, about two years i moved rote my book from forbes in london to san rancisco where i started studying and research being obile technology in silicon valley. i can't begin to tell you what a was in the deep end that and how surprised i was by the blas attitudes i was encountering among executives and start-ups and entrepreneurs privacy of consumers they were building technology for. fundamental reason is because of the way our personal data signs.ates into dollar it took an executive at nuance a voice recognition company to put it succinctly for me this particular attitude. was an the privacy economic consideration. this executive was helping nuance, which does the voice recognition technology for the -phone series, to create a personal as

so, for example, this is jake davis who i met face to face before -- while he was still part of the groupas arrested. online he was the leader of one of the cofounders and this witty, charismatic kingpin in the community. but face to face he was a scrawny young man. he was actually not particularly good at socializing and quite shy. of course, he's not like that anymore. this was a while ago. i also learned about a web site called forten, and you'll hear more about this from cole stryker, my colleague, who's really investigated this. and this is a web site which anonymous started on. it's been called -- well, i won't say the word, the armpit of the internet, because it hosts a lot of porn and graphic violence. but at the same time, it is also a place where people come to honestly cuts discuss their fears and their proclivities and inhibitions. one of my interviewees who i called william in the book, and he allowed me to take a picture of him by covering his face, went on for many years every day. this was like his life. and this was a place where he could honestly talk about things with p