Big Issue?

One of the big issues constantly getting a lot of media attention is the self contracting subject of Internet Privacy. It's a pretty good bet that if something's on the Internet it's not fucking private and that's not about to change any time soon. Basically, if you really want your blog to be private try buying a diary and a pen.

Note for the teenagers: A diary is a book full of blank pages intended for keeping track of important dates/events, or to simply keep a log of your boring life if it's that important to you. You can buy a diary from most supermarkets, department stores, and newsagents. A newsagents is a shop where, to this day, you can still buy a wide range of news papers and magazines among other items such as stationary and gift cards. We're talking real things here, not packets of electronic data, real physically tangible objects.


If you're after security there are ways to defend against cyber attacks. There's anti-virus software, there's anti-malware & anti-spyware software, there are firewalls, there's file encryption, there's password protection, etc, etc, etc. There are also ways around all of it for those who's social lives are so fruitful that they spend all day everyday online learning more ways to cripple a computer system simply because they can. If you're concerned about certain information that may be on your computer you always have the option of not putting that computer online. You always have the option of not looking at that virus riddled porn site. You always have the option of not putting someone else's USB device in your poorly protected computer. You also have the beautiful option of using an operating system other than Windows.

The short story is as follows.
If you use a Windows OS, surf the net with Internet Explorer, don't back-up your data to an external storage device, use Windows Live for all your email needs, click on banner ads & suspicious links, set your firewall to allow everything, and put up pictures and info about yourself online that may end up biting you on the arse and have never looked at your account & privacy settings... you and your computer are both sitting ducks.

Have fun with that.