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Posted on 2006 by MG
Google and other search engines allow you to find a lot of things.
The ease with which people put documents and devices of various types on the internet and expose them to the world, even without realizing it, is remarkable and seems to be a new social trend. This is all made possible by the ubiquity of digital technology, which now encodes any type of document, whether written, audio, or image. At the same time, media such as memory keys and magnetic cards are changing the way information is physically stored, greatly increasing the amount of data each person can carry with them.
There is an ever-increasing demand for privacy, but, paradoxically, at the same time, people accept, consciously or unconsciously, that their data and behaviors are exposed to the world thanks to the internet or a lost/forgotten RAM key.
Perhaps this is only a partially conscious step toward a glass-walled society, where everything done over the internet is public, and many behaviors that are already public or semi-public in themselves (going out into the street, stopping at a bar, chatting, etc.) become so to the fullest extent and are visible to anyone who comes across the right webcam link or file, potentially from around the world.
Since I'm in favor of a glass house, I just created a page dedicated to relatively private things that can be found with Google and/or other search engines.
It doesn't contain potentially dangerous things like password lookups, security vulnerabilities, or the like, which are also possible (so if you're looking for that, go elsewhere).
Have fun.