….not just one but many. You may think what is the big deal if few things are left open on the internet? I am not the president of a country for people to come and hunt me down. But the fact is we are as important as anyone on the planet earth. We have started to disregard our personal information as something very valuable. Do you know something? you are worth so much online than in personal life. Ok, I see the question in your mind “Reallyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?”. Please read the article and you will know about it.
First of all, I should now know anything about you unless you are required to, correct? But if I want to I can, its not so hard you know? I can know everything
So what can I do with this information? I can do anything. You see as everyone says information is wealth and personal information is a gold mine. If I am just a teen freaky guy I could just get acquaintance with you and talk about things that you really like and make friends with you instantly. You took all these years to make friends that you have now, it took so much time to know about them later understand about then then accept them to your life. Well myself on the other hand have a big short cut.
If I am person looking to know about you for personal profit (meaning there is something/some favor I need from you) then to get to know you and make conversion would be very easy, I can track your friend also find out if I can somehow find a common link and get to say hello to you. If I am looking for some professional favor I can also find out whom you are linked in professionally and get to know them.I also get to know who to ask a favor form you because I would have seen people asking you for favors. I can find links you know ?
Do you know selling of personal information is big business? Online and offline. How do you think you get so many unwanted product marketing phone calls? Many annoying postal mails? Annoying e-mail spans? Text messages in your mobile phone. Someone some how got your house address/email address/phone number. Next time when you get one of the above mentioned ones, don’t just dismiss it. Have a close look a it. You will find all the things that are sent to you are not just random stuff, they are something you might want or things like you like or something that’s was running on your mind. Check it our next time.
Everyone of us are not what we are that others see in the outside world. We are something different inside. For many reasons we are not able to exhibit this or in simple terms “be ourselves”. The internet has given us a second chance to re-live over lives everyday. When I identify myself on the internet there is a very good chance I am not what I claim to be. So its very very easy to get duped on the internet. I find many profiles to be fake and people whom I did chat with really are not what they claim to be. Living a second life is done much on chat rooms and one social networking sites. You may talk to some one for days or years together and one find day find out they are not as enchanting as they claim to be. By that time that other person would have come to know everything about you. Is it work that risk?
If I am a hacker, since I have got some basic background information about you. I really know how much you are worth, I can decide to hack in to your computer and see if I have stored more information about my bank account, credit card number, debts, investments etc etc and try to see can make some money out of it. Else just sell information to someone who is interested in the same.
If this sounds scary enough, there is more to come. Software’s are not only powerful but also very intelligent. I am sure you would have come across very intelligent software’s that can read a persons personality also predict our mind. Don’t start to think about in any science fiction way i.e. some wires or
If I do the above I will have a information vault about you. Now as usual when you open the computer and do a search, If you search for things I know what to show you, I will show you websites or any information where I will get paid most. I can also not show you information. I know what you do on Mondays and I know what you do on Friday evenings. I know what do do when you surf the web. Imagine web that is no longer under you control.
Modern gadgets like the mobile phone are now a days very powerful pocket pc’s. The applications that are available are very powerful. These application run our everyday life. Now a days these application re tied to the web. We have sophisticated systems like the GPS in our phone. The system has a provision to know where you are and what’s your activity. Imagine if I could write a piece of software that could hack into your mobile phone turn on your GPS device and it tells me where you are at this instant one planet earth and that software can turn on your camera and microphone can actually see and hear what you do? Lets hope that does not happen.
I guess I have scared you all enough.