SECURING SECURITY
‘It’s a fitting congruity that the simplest way to guage Facebook’s current woes comes via that other unchallenged behemoth of the internet, Google. Type “How do I…” into the search engine and one of the first suggestions it comes up with continues: “delete my Facebook account?” Yesterday it was the ninth top-ranked search term, bringing more than 18m results.’
(The Guardian May 2010)
I am surely not alone in my frustrated, possibly futile, attempts to fulfill the ever-increasing number of occasions when I must remember a code number, password or some other form of identity. Recording these accumulating means of access and their supposed prevention is an option but universally we are advised against doing so. This advice appears to be generally accepted for in both the public media and our daily conversation there is clear evidence of a continuing commitment to some kind of boundary between the public and the private. But in our already densely digitalised age is this still a tenable position? If so, where do we draw the dividing line?