Privacy 2.0

[XabbaRus]

Thus why I have no face book, or myspace, or bebo or livejournal...

Subsim and a couple of other forums are all I am registered at.

Some of them under a fake name and details only because I need to download something.

[Catfish]

Hello,
use PGP for private eMails, with all the bells and whistles, and drive the NSA crazy (and the BND).
And NEVER use facebook, private blogs or whatever - unless you fill it with useless, untrue crap - but even this may reveal one or two hints about you .. e.g. when exactly you were sitting in front of your PC, or whatever ..

Being paranoid does not mean they are not chasing you

Greetings,
Catfish

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Thus why I have no face book, or myspace, or bebo or livejournal...

Subsim and a couple of other forums are all I am registered at.

Some of them under a fake name and details only because I need to download something.

You're even more paranoid then I am, and that's saying something.

Although I do understand the general concern.

[Wolfehunter]

The only thing that comes to my mind is... "Suckers hahahahaa.."

Even though I register on these sites I never really give my personal info..

My address is normally...

666 Elm street,
Hell, Oblivion,
696969

But a few people I meet over the times like in subsim I can put some trust in.. such as Neal....

Am i risking personal info? All the time... But I'm very careful.. I think others have to be too. Facebook in an ideal good world is a great tool... But in our sick world is very dangerous..

Why do so many people make so much information so easily accessable?
It's beyond my comprehension.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

Why do so many people make so much information so easily accessable?
It's beyond my comprehension.

Older people are naive in the meaning of not knowing the implications. their life experience does not hold this lesson of a new envrionment, and learning new stuff is the more difficult the older you are. your brain is against it, and your habits as well.

Younger people have been raised in a climate and sopcial context that taught them not to care. They are used to not caring for these things.

This way, not caring for privacy has become a norm that has conquered the standards silently. In social sience it is called "creeping normality" (schleichende Normalität). Celebs cult and VIP news contribute their share to the degenerating situation. Celebs should be banned from approaching cameras and microphones closer than 1000m. then people would understand all by themselves that there is no such thing as "celebrity people", and that it all is just about dwarfs blown up to hilarious proportions.

that's why in such cases you do not acchieve much by trying to convince people and leave the decision to them. As long as they have not been bitten, they cannot see why they even should want to be careful. If you think about it, it is a typical porblem in our youth years, for all of us. You either set up rules i such cases, or you don't and leave the damage unfolding.

Question for Skybird and others, have any of you ever had an incident where your info has been taken from the net and misused in some way?

[Jimbuna]

The truth is out there....does anyone know the url.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

Question for Skybird and others, have any of you ever had an incident where your info has been taken from the net and misused in some way?

Interesting question, OTH. I haven't experienced any drawbacks. I have my name and personal info, including my address, out there in plain sight. I meet with many people from the internet world in real life, it's no big deal to me. I think people overrate their importance, no one really cares. No one cares where I live, what I look like or my real name. Same goes for 99.999% of us.

Of course, I have the advantage of being the same person in real life that I am online. I own up to my opinions and statements. I have nothing to fear from what I say online if my real life people found out. Hey, that's me

Now, that's not to say some psychotic out there may not make it their mission in life to screw with me or come after me...but that could easily happen in a non-Internet world. For many years, most people had their name and address posted in the phone book. So, this isn't really new, is it?