Left to chance came online as my personal blog in the Fall of 2001. As events that year dictated, it quickly turned political as I found my voice and opted to raise awareness and spark conversation about the many evolving issues of the day. In 2007 LTC had become neglected for two reasons; the news highlighting my discontent was being covered by popular media outlets better than in the past, and two, the site has been ‘banned’ at my place of employment, so that I could not update it during the day. I’m actually kind of proud of that last fact, but I have since left that job and now have the freedom to do as I please once again.
Then, after attending an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Q&A session and speaking with their lawyers and staff at Defcon 15 (August, 2007), I donated to EFF and became a member. I left the conference with a feeling of wanting to do something to compliment their work in not only promoting awareness of digital rights and online privacy, but in trying to effect change by organizing my thoughts and sparking conversation on the topics. Once this occurs it is my hope that Left to chance will serve as some sort of sentinel that helps direct people to protest current and proposed laws so they can fight for their digital rights and online privacy.
I hope you find the site useful as well as educational. Thanks.
Phil
