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Times of India·7 December 2001

Ssssh, can we keep this a secret...

Using Puerto Rico’s giant radio telescope as a metaphor, Murthy reflects on surveillance, communications technology, and the fading assumption of privacy, questioning how confidential ordinary conversations really remain.

PARTIAL WEBSITE RETRIEVAL: Opening text retrieved. The piece uses the Arecibo telescope and modern surveillance to argue that privacy is fragile in a world of mobile, email and internet communications, then points to encryption, anonymising tools and openness as responses.

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