FIGURE 01 is a diagram providing an overview
of a program that incorporates the system and method to privatize computer data
0110, together with five support procedures. The system and method 0110 is
detailed in FIGURES 02 through 21. However, it cannot stand alone; privatized
data that can never be recovered amounts to the proverbial "write-only memory"
-- an interesting abstraction, but of no practical value. Therefore, FIGURE 01
introduces supporting procedures 0120 to 0160 (see FIGURES 22 to 30), which
are essential to make an implementation viable. Lastly, FIGURE 01 touches
on extensions 0170 to the system and method; these extensions are listed
in FIGURE 31. The essence of the techniques of randomly fragmenting data
to ensure privacy can find broad application and contribute to enhanced
handling of privacy-related issues on the Internet, in operating systems,
etc. as well as in individual and corporate use of computers.
