1665年，六十九岁的张岱为自己写下墓志铭，其中并未提及《夜航船》。
1689年，张岱卒于九十三岁。《夜航船》从此湮没。
三百年后，尘封抄本现身于世，辗转入藏宁波天一阁，《夜航船》重现天日。
Note: originally posted Wednesday, 17 April 2014 on gavofyork’s blog Insights into a Modern World.
As we move into the future, we find increasing need for a zero-trust interaction system. Even pre-Snowden, we had realised that entrusting our information to arbitrary entities on the internet was fraught with danger. However, post-Snowden the argument plainly falls in the hand of those who believe that large organisations and governments routinely attempt to stretch and overstep their authority. Thus we realise that entrusting our information to organisations in general is a fundamentally broken model. The chance of an organisation not meddling with our data is merely the effort required minus their expected gains. Given they tend to have an income model that requires they know as much about people as possible the realist will realise that the potential for convert misuse is difficult to overestimate.
