Your personal email – think about the amount of information it can reveal about you, your co-workers, your company, your family, from party plans to shopping receipts to office gossip.

Microsoft Outlook is really the American workplace standard for email and calendaring purposes. Knowing this, and say… a domain attached to your ‘interest’ can give you lots of information.

Privacy is NOT about remaining secret. Privacy in todays digital world is about managing and maintaining control over information about yourself that others may use to hurt you.

As the technologies and methods of spreading information spread through the population, what options are going to remain in our society of increasing transparency?

So this morning about 8am I got hacked. I admit it. But just as I drive an extremely fast car, I also admit to getting some speeding tickets - it goes with the territory. Anyway - first thing I noticed this morning upon clicking to this site was that I ended up IN TURKEY.

WTF! Try again, yup - I’m in Turkey. A meta-refresh was injected into my sql and visitors to my lovely site in Denver were redirected to that earthquake ridden hacker infested half country named after what we eat. Ok, historically incorrect but I’m allowed to be pissed.

Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament with several dozen barrels of gunpowder on November 5, 1605 and was subsequently tried as a traitor with his co-conspirators for plotting against the government. The nursery rhyme “Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot” can be applied to seo.