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OK folks. For those newcomers to the internet: Anything you post, upload or send in email, is available to anyone who wants it. Forever.

This was demonstrated to me in 1995 by the friend who first introduced me to the internet and helped build my first web site. During the late nineties, as a sales and marketing exec, I learned of emerging technology that tracked internet activity to facilitate targeted advertising. It is the digital age version of Nielsen ratings; a tool for marketers to use to get the most from their advertising dollars. (Christmas tip: get on your wife’s computer or phone and search fly fishing gear, outboard motors etc. She’ll get the hint.)

The internet only knows what you tell it; have you told the internet about your guns? Your SHTF getaway plans? How you plan to get rid of the neighbor’s noisy dog or that you have booby trapped your campaign yard signs? Where you go and what you do on the internet is no secret. It is like living in a small town where people know you like fishing and are constantly suggesting this fishing lodge or that rod and reel; and everyone will know if you walk into the adult bookstore and come out with a plain brown wrapped package; and anyone who wants to can read your mail.

Seriously. You really should have figured this out by now.