Geek(Wisdom).com - [The place for open source wisdom.]A place to share geekly ideas.Accounts everywhere!- June 15, 2007 I've been thinking about all the Internet sites that I've created an accounts on for one reason or another. It has to be in the hundreds. Of those sites I wonder how many of them would let me delete my account completely. Very few I bet. Probably the most universal method of deleting my account--at a site I no longer want to have a relationship with and does not offer a "delete me" mechanism--is to poison the account with bogus information. I could change all the information about me to false...http://www.geekwisdom.com/dyn/node/194 Focus your energies on commonalities between threats- June 15, 2007 In Rare Risk and Overreactions Bruce Schneier writes, "If you want to do something that makes security sense, figure out what's common among a bunch of rare events, and concentrate your countermeasures there. Focus on the general risk of terrorism, and not the specific threat of airplane bombings using liquid explosives. Focus on the general risk of troubled young adults, and not the specific threat of a lone gunman wandering around a college campus. Ignore the movie-plot threats, and...http://www.geekwisdom.com/dyn/node/193 |