The Internet is not necessarily safe or accurate - CYA

Implications: After 200 hundred years we have learn nothing. There is nothing secure that isn't in your pocket - you better watch that too. Mars - never been there.

Analysis: The realization that what one puts on the Internet is somehow not safe, wow -  revelation - that hearkens me back to our founding father.  More than two hundred years ago, the idea of repositories for personal, and of course business, information in the hands of government was a real enough fear - today - technology has added the speed of light and opened the doors to the world.

The FBI doesn't need to maintain databases contrary to the Constitution, they have the multitude of commercial databases to tap.  With just a wink and/or a subpoena, and the eager cooperation of these commercial resources, our information is readily available.  Equally, with the act of just one disgruntle employee, the information in these allegedly safe repository will "bleed" you dry from his/her "thumb-drive".  Oh - hackers, of course they have an equal shot at these repositories and, don't forget, your home PC, too.  The lubriciously foreign government's IT depart is out there too, with their own version of the "Open Skies" policy looking at  trade-secretes, business inventory, manufacturing practices, domestic secretes, and military deployment.  That information is sent at the speed of technologyfrom any Internat "hot-spot/zone".

If you do not retain your information in your own personally derived "back pocket" it will shortly not be that private anymore.  The problem is that as security closes doors they, in fact, open many more.  The compromising of the flaws in the software protection package you use does, I repeat does, open your vault before anyone can close the door.

Nowadays, there are a series of passwords, pass-phrases, pet dog names and your first car that must be given up in order to authenticate that you are you - and then you hope and pray that the site that you are at is, in fact, where you want be.  Information given to a "ghost" site maybe the keys to the rest, and the destruction, of your world.

Additionally, the information need not be any more correct or unauthenticatable than the gossip rags at your local grocery store check-out stand.  Mars - never been there - but its on the Internet - well I'm still not pregnant with your baby!!!  Just as much false information can be inserted into ones "cyborg" profile as true information.  Once out, it may never be redacted and/or corrected.

Simply put, as the article points out, the Internet is not safe for "man nor beast."   Albeit repetitive, CYA - and do it NOW!!!