[Am-info] A question of trust

[Erick Andrews]

MS wants our family trees.   Why?  

See:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2500783.stm

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Microsoft plans for a online archive of our lives are a bit
too much for technology consultant Bill Thompson. 

Sometimes things happen at the same time for a reason. Jung called it
synchronicity and claimed that ordinary coincidences were nothing of the
sort. 

For him, they expressed deeper patterns in our inner lives. He believed
careful analysis could uncover the deeper meaning in coincidence, because
the ones we notice are, by definition, significant. 

So what are we to make of two stories which appeared within hours of each
other on Thursday. The first was of a new research project from Microsoft
that will - so it claims - create a 'back-up brain' that will store and
catalogue all aspects of a person's digital life. 

The second warned any and all users of the Windows operating system
earlier than Windows XP that a serious security hole in Internet Explorer left
their computers open to any hacker or script kiddie who felt like breaking
into random PCs over the internet. 

The two seem to me to express the two extremes of our current attitude to
computers and the internet. 
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Erick Andrews