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 Simon Morris's BlogMay 2008 ArchivesKnock KnockPosted by javakiddy on May 30, 2008 at 02:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (8)Allegedly invented by accident, the humble Post-it Note has likely been responsible for more potential breaches in computer security than any single virus, rootkit or keylogger. This handy little aide-mémoire is home to 'to do' lists, phone numbers, doodles, and (inevitably) passwords. Most people wouldn't tape their front door key to their front door, yet they'll happily stick their computer password to the front of their computer monitor. One time, in a book shop, I had to endure a customer loudly direct her workmate (via cell phone) to riffle through her desk drawer for the letter containing her bank PIN number. To this day I still cannot decide what was more brain-dead, the fact that she stuffed the letter into an unlocked drawer, the fact that said unlocked drawer was in a semi-public place, the fact that she revealed its existence to someone else, or the fact that she repeated the number loudly for all the shop to hear as it was read to her! Incidents like this might be amusing, if not for the fact that we're moving towards an age when all our data may be held remotely (on 'the cloud') and accessed via Rich Internet Applications. But solving this problem could open up another one: as focus shifts from physically protecting locally stored data, to asserting access permissions on remotely held data, will we need to lose our anonymity to protect our privacy? | |
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