Sarah, Sarah, Sarah.
I'm sitting here at the Chevy dealership and of course Fox News is on. They're talking about this egregious invasion of privacy into your Yahoo! account. Someone hacked your password and hijacked the account, and the Fox pundits are wondering why the Secret Service couldn't protect you.
Well, if you'd been using your government-provided official e-mail address, perhaps they could have. But then you'd have been subject to record-keeping laws.
But now you've learned what life on the 'net is like. It's still a little wild, wild west out here. Oh, there's a great veneer of ease and security and lots of eye candy, but in the end, it's just a veneer. Underneath there is a lot of cryptic technology, with millions of workers and, yes, a criminal element. It's a microcosm of our world. It is its own world, when you think about it.
Any time you connect off your computer, you should presume that everything you say is being seen. How far you go determines how many people might see it. Your government is only a few, secure steps away, so you know that they eyes watching it are the authorized ones. But Yahoo!? Well, the whole world can see it.
And now the whole world has.
Obama '08,
Steve
ps. Cute picture of Bristol hammin' it up with Trig on the plane.
Friday, September 19, 2008
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Yes but there's no denying Palin's qualifications... come on - she can see Russia from her backyard! ...one of the better responses to that comment that puts it in perspective (in simple terms) -- I can see the Moon from my backyard, I'm now qualified to be an astronaut! It speaks volumes that she & her "minders" did not understand how the "Russia" comment would be taken... but they didn't have anything better to right about her foreign policy experience...
funny...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080917190832AAcZUPd
Obama '08
The teacher in me is reflecting on how ironic it is that people are more concerned about what you don't want them to see/hear/know, than what you do.
-posted proudly by Elise Eskew Sparks (a.k.a. "Molten Contra Palin")
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