The Right Attitude

Recently there was a thread on one of the Linux user group mailing lists I follow about privacy concerns while traveling in Italy. Apparently Italian law requires you to show valid ID or passport in Internet Cafés. Add to this the fact that you need ID to sign up for a home connection and your passport for a hotel room (where you usually have internet access these days). In Italy, therefore, it is almost impossible to get online completely anonymously. Unless you can find open WiFi perhaps.

In any event, be that as it may, I particularly liked the reaction of a crazy ex-colleague of mine:

[ILUG] ID for Internet access

From: Conor Wynne
Date: Thu May 15 18:13:20 IST 2008

[snip]

You’re on holidays, feck t’internet! :-)

Drink vino, eat and shop is all that should concern you.
If your on business, then you will have a business laptop and use the hotel’s / business wifi.

Otherwise drink & be merry!

Conor.

See the full email and thread here.