Privacy on the web ???
How much of privacy do us have on the web ???
OK agreed some times its our choice and sometimes not by choice.
Just put up a search query in google with your first name and last name and just sit around watching the stories the web tells you about yourself.
The pictures you took of you, your friends, relations, the school you attended, the place where you live, your email address, your actual address, your work details and what not ???
Its a different story if you are not enough web savvy but everybody is enough techy these days, thanks for the low cost broadband connections.
Every second person, well almost more than that maintains an active blog, almost everybody owns a flickr or some other photo storage account, has an account in orkuts and hi5s and facebooks.
And more the darkest details about you are ah well stored and not kept secret anymore by the web. It crawls deep into them and takes them out and embarasses you.
The comment you posted some while back which you thought funny shows up embarrassing you in a tight spot.
The cute pic of yours you thought would be great to share gets morphed into a raunchy bit.
Ah the end less possibilities and more just put up a query with an email service provider like gmail.com and use a li'l perl script and lo there you go you have hundreds and thousands of accounts to spam.
Who wants to buy hacked databases anymore to get email addresses ?
People are so dumb as to share their mobile addresses and resident addresses to random people on orkut kinda social sites.
OK I agree that its great to have our credentials built up on the net and show off. But be wary where to stop. Don't give up your email addresses/ passwords to spam other people on some junk social web sites compromising their as well as your data.
I am not writing all these to scare off people from the net or asking them to be over cautious at every step. But yeah maintain your privacy, don't over expose things and don't let somebody else print your auto biography without your permission.
OK agreed some times its our choice and sometimes not by choice.
Just put up a search query in google with your first name and last name and just sit around watching the stories the web tells you about yourself.
The pictures you took of you, your friends, relations, the school you attended, the place where you live, your email address, your actual address, your work details and what not ???
Its a different story if you are not enough web savvy but everybody is enough techy these days, thanks for the low cost broadband connections.
Every second person, well almost more than that maintains an active blog, almost everybody owns a flickr or some other photo storage account, has an account in orkuts and hi5s and facebooks.
And more the darkest details about you are ah well stored and not kept secret anymore by the web. It crawls deep into them and takes them out and embarasses you.
The comment you posted some while back which you thought funny shows up embarrassing you in a tight spot.
The cute pic of yours you thought would be great to share gets morphed into a raunchy bit.
Ah the end less possibilities and more just put up a query with an email service provider like gmail.com and use a li'l perl script and lo there you go you have hundreds and thousands of accounts to spam.
Who wants to buy hacked databases anymore to get email addresses ?
People are so dumb as to share their mobile addresses and resident addresses to random people on orkut kinda social sites.
OK I agree that its great to have our credentials built up on the net and show off. But be wary where to stop. Don't give up your email addresses/ passwords to spam other people on some junk social web sites compromising their as well as your data.
I am not writing all these to scare off people from the net or asking them to be over cautious at every step. But yeah maintain your privacy, don't over expose things and don't let somebody else print your auto biography without your permission.