The premise that anything at all could be on line in the public Internet space, and at the same time be private, secure and remain your sole property, is kind of…well…a contradiction of terms. The longer you think about it, the more absurd such a premise becomes.

The long line of corporations queueing up to put their data “in the cloud” is totally ridiculous for way too many reasons to list here – not the least of them being the “cloud” terminology. Equally amazing is the panic of corporations to RECLAIM their online data after a couple of national governments flicked the “kill switch” … good luck with that one. Do you think you reclaimed all of it, or could there still be a copy of it floating around out there in “the cloud” somewhere ?

Call me old school, but I prefer sending good old email (I don’t leave it online) & blogs, making phone calls, meeting people face to face (i.e. actually in person), and so on. If I want person “A” or “Z” to know what I’m doing, I prefer to tell them myself …

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After struggling and guessing, I finally created a second FB user, so now I can login and confirm what others are actually seeing.

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The image conjured up of the Facebook community is like that of a swimming pool which is never cleaned, everyone urinating and defecating in the same water they wade in, merrily conversing with one another while their lives quickly ebb away.

Another way to look at it is a tar pit, one fool jumps in and pretends to party but discovers something isn’t quite right about the situation while another fool jumps in to join him, the process continuing with each new registration.

With more and more private docments going online without our approval, often hosted or connected to compromised systems running arcane versions of Windows or recent versions of Windows well rooted with intentional back doors or unintentional trojans/rootkits, data spills must be loved by governments, it’s an easy way for them to obtain the information since they must investigate the spills which usually means data pull from suspected machines.

Whether or not you use Facebook does not matter, your personal data is being compiled and put online at an alarming rate and unless you’re living in the jungle and communing with people who all remain off the grid, at some point your data is or will be spilled, hackers or no hackers.

No rootkit in the machine at a software level, how about blackbox hardware components? How many systems are “owned” by government(s) by satcom? How much do you really know about the limitations of hardware? Do you know how easily your PCI cards and network cards can be owned?

Have you researched your computer’s cables and shielding? Are your network or computer(s) shielded at all? When you dig deep enough through research, you’ll discover, as I have, our computers are much more powerful and vulnerable to attacks from space and other vectors outside of our buildings than most can ever imagine.

Privacy is dead in the world of electricity.

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On one hand, they have a precedent to try to maintain, on the other it would look really bad for them to sue someone attempting to help people understand Facebook’s privacy features right now.

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Hmm. It’s like the old adage about sleeping with half the world. Same thing actually.

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http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

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