Re: Cloud, please ?

On Tue, 8 May 2012, Bruce Sinclair wrote:

In article <jobq9k$3kc$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, J G Miller <miller@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tuesday, May 8th, 2012, at 11:58:24h +0100, Rui Maciel wrote:

The main point about the right to privacy is that no one actually knows how
confidential a piece of their personal information actually is, and how it
might be too late when they realize that.

Excellent point.

Like when you employer insists you reveal your Facebook password
(if you have such an account).

IIRC, interestingly, giving up the password currently violates facebook
terms and conditions. And probably a number of employment laws in a number
of countries. :)

Who cares about facebook? In the old days, everyone had it drilled into them to not reveal passwords. This latest story is about information, but once you hand over your password, they can do anything with your account, whether it's your ISP, your bank, your amazon account, whatever. They can retrieve information, but they can also plant information, or do anything you can do with that account.

The stories were completely garbled, making it a "civil rights" issue with facebook, rather than a security issue.

Michael

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