Beer ,Politics and The Rest Of The World

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

My Coffee shop inspiration

On monday when i was in La cuncina my uncles coffee shop the idea of the post on the Guardian, my cats and the g8 came to me. The G8 post has been scraped , mainly because i don't know enough, it would be like the articles in the red tops that seem insightful but all the have done is googled "G8". Anyway today again i was in a coffee shop, star-bucks this time ( not bad coffee for once as-well) and again i got idea's for posts. This time a post on cyber-stalkers and on why i blame the media for societies problems. i might not do the second one, but i will do my post on cyber-stalkers.

Apparently a group of bloggers have managed to get a man arrested because he was stalking them first over the internet then i real life, this news completely pass me by ( shocking i know) but anyway now it was highlighted in the always amusing perma-blog section of G2 i thought i would see how easy it would be to stalk me , with a starting place of this blog. So im going to do this in real time whislt typing this blog ( love tabbed browsing ).

Ok , first to the comments section, lets find out who my friends are and get info from them about me. Ok ash has left lots of comments which make him look like he knows me personally, so lets look at his blogger profile then his blog, Also my name "Taylor" is metioned more than once in comments. Right ash refers to Taylor in top post , in reference to " the soceity" Further down it is refered to Animesoc, and also references to leeds on my blog point toward a possible link. also reference to the real and cyber lounge. a google search of anime society leeds comes up with anime website. look into the commitee section leeds us to the name Taylor now, that must be there blogger know as djb, the stalker now knows my favorate anime of the moment is code geass, a quick glace through the forum intro section shows that im anybodyforcake. and also that we meet in the lounge and when the showings are so now the stalker not only knows my opinions , likes, dislikes and fav anime he also knows where i am on thrusday nights 7-10 , doesnt take much for him to come alone, then find out who i am and kill me......



Ok yes i knew what i was looking for, however think how much easier that would have been if i had facebook. But this whislt i have proved its possible to kill me via blogger ( even more possible i have done this post) its just as possible for someone to see me in the street follow me home and kill me. Yes you should be somewhat worried about giving personal info out on the internet but when people start to get overly worried its bad for everyone, in the same way that parents should let there kids out to play and not worry about peodfiles, people should be free to express there opinoion , share there hobbies and biuld friendships over the internet without begin scared that people who take an interest will eat them.

1 comment:

Ash said...

i apologise for leading to your metaphorical death...but yeah...tis a little riduclous really...im pretty sure most people can be found pretty easily on the net unless they make a particularly paranoid effort not to make sure they can't be....i think most people are aware facebook is the most convinient stalker tool in the universe...i certainly am...but hey...its kinda fun.