Privacy, hypocrisy and friends
Conspiracy theories are all the rage these days. “Big Brother is watching!” If the government is watching you, who else is? Which in turn brings the thought: What if I was “found out”?
I think about that, sometimes. A few weeks ago, I went downtown for a day of professional training. My boss decided I should know more stuff. When I got the email confirmation for the activity, it said I could bring my laptop, that there would be wireless Internet available. My first thought was that it’d be cool to have it with me. I could check email, maybe even chat if things got too boring. But then I remembered how full my hard drive is of naughty pictures and stuff related to my blog. Hmm. Kinda risky, especially with some of this shit right on my desktop. Of course, I could move everything to a less conspicuous location, but still. Who knows who can access my ‘puter when I’m on a public, non-secure wireless network? And what about when I’d leave the laptop in the classroom during lunch?
I’m probably just paranoid, but I decided I’d content myself with taking notes. Besides, it’s my own personal machine, not my work’s, and it wasn’t mandatory to bring one along.
As I was sitting there, listening to our teacher throw his technical babble at us, I watched the other participants and remembered my left-behind laptop. What WOULD happen if I was found out? Probably not much. Except that some people I know would look at me (and Boy Toy) quite differently
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