Pointless to try and hide
No sense in feeling paranoid. After all, you have no secrets in this new age.
There’s been an awful lot of noise about Facebook, and how “your” information is shared with, well, lots of other people. Come on, that was the point. If you hang your laundry on a line outside, don’t be surprised if the neighbours know about your specked shorts. Still, we’d like to believe that we can restrict the access, if only “just a little bit” (thanks, Supertramp guy).
I’ve tried to snap the latches on the portal doors, but there sure are a lot of options (one estimate runs as high as 171, and that will change just as soon as the next site patches are applied). Over at the NY Times, there’s a visual for those who learn that way. This afternoon, I tried a couple of new open source tools, and I like the “get down to the nitty gritty” of their search. Thanks to Slashdot for the head’s up.
For those of you with “smart phones” (an oxymoron), there’s more. The remote wipe feature that protects you in times of loss (losing the treasured cell can be like a death in the family) does work. Well enough to peeve the US Secret Service… after all, a back door swings in two senses. You can protect your data, remotely; by extension, they can access your data, remotely. I know, there isn’t a company in corporate America that wants that little thought niggling around in the empty brain cavern.
