Taking Your Digital Life with You (commercial, taxes, city, social)
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"This drugs can have a side effect. You may experience bouts of homicidal rage."--Duke
"What the hell are you talking about Man?"---Washington Redskins Player
"But you're a half back! Who would know the difference?"
See, there's the catch that what might be perfectly understandable, acceptable in our time may be quite perverted by the time anyone comes across it......even if it is just a football team.
But on the other hand..........."Times have changed, grandpa, you can come out of the closet now."
Things over time change, what seemed okay to us growing up could be quite perverted now.....and even Doonesbury can get it wrong.....by current definition.
In https://kclibrary.org/blog/featured-...ity-connection with "It's a Baby Woman", that is how I was "taught" to see things. Now, though, between those who have nothing set in stone till age 10 or so to the trafficking activists saying there is no such thing as an underage woman for that is a child, who knows that what we know is acceptable.
I misspoke. Use strong passwords for things you do not want others seeing. People will say well I forget them. One trick I was taught is to write passwords down but always leave a known part of it out. Like always have it be say begin at the fourth letter. Example:
Write down JB3ACEef123 when the actual password is JB3AkittyCEef123. All you have to remember is to add kitty for each password.
This is very good advice.
For those like me, who have all their financial interests online now, which I suspect is most of us, I would suggest using a password manager app. Use the above formula or something similar that you can remember as the password for the manager app, then have that app manufacture individual passwords of long strings of random letters & symbols for everything else.
I was using LastPass but have switched over to 1Pass because the former's security measures were questionable.
My local bank, my investments, my IRAs, Social Security, federal & state income taxes, my email accounts that contain info from my lawyer & insurance companies, retail transactions, etc... if any of this fell into the hands of some eastern Euro or other who is a full time pro hacker looking for soft targets, without strong security one's personal/financial life could fall like dominos.
Why would I want to save AND encrypt something? Is the purpose to expose, or hide something?
The purpose, for me, is the calming feeling in the here-and-now that I don’t have to think again about being forgotten the moment I check into the sweet hereafter. I like this privacy. Others—many others, it seems, if this thread is any indication—aren’t concerned about it. I guess it depends on what makes you feel good.
There isn't much on my computer's storage disks that I wouldn't share with the world. There's very little there that's controversial.
I'd never want anyone to have access to my Apple account (iCloud). That's where all my phone photos are backed up to. There are plenty of things there that I wouldn't want the world to know. Nothing illegal, but socially embarrassing.
The chance that anyone will read and pay attention to an historical document is the inverse of how many of them there are. Few letters were written home during the civil war, so the few that survive are read eagerly. But eveery e-mail I ever sent is in my outbox, and there are literally a billion outboxes. My most lascivious secrets will forever be ho-hummed, even in the rare chance anyone will find them in all that mess.
I have two personal thoughts on this. First, I can’t think of anything that would be derogatory or condemning that would be discovered. Second, I can’t think of anyone who would have the time or interest to look for anything. I am a writer and have a few unfinished drafts but they are unfinished for good reason. Most of my finished work is published or online and public. There are early drafts of that finished work but no one would care. My tax records are there for several years and someone would have to file my taxes for the year.
This issue is one that various archivists have to address. There are manuscript depositories that have housed the papers of various notable people both famous and ordinary. Researchers have used those collections for information. The papers of a 1936 Olympian at the Berlin games might record their impressions of Nazi Germany or what they heard or saw about the treatment of Jews or the existence of resistance groups. Now, there might be little or no paper and only electronic files. What ideas or impressions will our Olympians have at the future Olympics in China? They might be recorded in emails or an online journal. An archive that has to catalog and preserve the Bill Gates Collection will have to not only preserve them but keep them accessible as technology changes. The media might not be readable as a floppy disk.
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