Overall, one does leave a large footprint out there, while surfing.
BTTT.
>>Overall, one does leave a large footprint out there, while surfing.<<
Not if one ensures one’s profile is as thin on details as possible. 99% of my surfing is 100% under non de plume inlinkable to RL. The other 1% is FB (for family and close friends only — I reject most requests for Friending) and the only info on there is my RL name — no DOB, no sex, no nothing.
Not for those of us who never signed up or go to Facebook.
not exactly part of usual ping lists, but of note.
Wow! Imagine that! Stuff you post on the internet stays on the internet!
Less than 3 weeks until “Anonymous” allegedly will hack Facebook (Nov 5). As a matter of interest, Facebook was built using a MySQL database (a free implementation of SQL). MySQL was never intended to be used for such a gargantuan volume of data, so Facebook had to break their database into a bunch of interlocking segments that are (apparently) constantly on the verge of collapse. There’s no way Facebook could cleanly migrate off of MySQL to any other database implementation, since they would essentially have to build the new structure from scratch, then populate it with the data from the old system. Further, pretty much the only database systems capable of realistically handling Facebook are Oracle and MS-SQL, and you can imagine the ass-rape Facebook would suffer in licensing costs for going with either of those, so expect Facebook to get more and more unstable, and more disorganized (and more impossible to get the data people like this guy are requesting) as time goes on. Eventually, it will collapse under its own weight; that’s inevitable at this point.