# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Discussion

• Participants debated privacy concerns, comparing PRISM government surveillance to consumer technologies like Google Glass, with consensus that government surveillance poses the greater threat to privacy rights.

• The group critiqued the "nothing to hide" privacy fallacy, emphasizing that privacy is fundamental to democracy and free speech rather than simply about concealing wrongdoing.

• Technical discussions covered Python web browser programming tools including python-wxWebKit, PyWin32 comtypes, and Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), with specific attention to API design considerations.

• Users noted that WebKit development has shifted, with WebKit1 now in "maintenance mode" while WebKit2 is the recommended library for current development.

• Academic papers were shared and discussed, including research on measuring impact in online resources and biotechnology-related studies.

• The community appears to have ongoing DIY hardware projects, with references to a laser cutter project that members had been working on.

• The term "sequence kiddies" emerged as a biohacking parallel to "script kiddies" in computing, suggesting a category of amateur genetic experimenters working without deep understanding of the underlying science.