easier access of your data

Sometimes I'm wondering if the whole federation/decentralization is part of a global spying effort (1):

e.g. people use now their own servers/software, but no software is error free or safe against attacks

actually: nothing is secure on the web

Conclusion?

• mental change:
  • if you go online: be prepared that it may some day appear also in public (or before that be in someone elses hands)
  • using nicks or whatever give a false security feeling
    • there must be leaked out from one or two service providers some info about you (IP, ...) and one can connect you to some accounts
    • also: if you use your real name: you might think more about what you do actually
• publish in the open than in a container, e.g. use a CC licence
• manipulate others: by putting out "more info" about you (be it false info, too exaggerated, ...) so one would need to filter "somehow" to find the most important info about you
• help others understand also that nothing is secure
• see below the surface:
  • think about which services you use (and which "stations" on the road are passed and who owns those stations) + what kind of traces you leave online
  • and also include the "human factor" e.g. admins using too-easy passwords, ulterior motives, ...
• never go online anymore

Interestingly some of the conclusions above lead to: publish more info about you, which would make you more vulnerable?
In my view: if someone "wants to hurt" someone nothing will stop this (think about some basic things like: how's the ratio: population / police officers ? (2) )

see also

• Aspects of federation
• I'm online since 1996
• [1]

notes

(1) I am not saying that organizations, people who hold data about millions of users are now more safe or bad/good or whatever
(2) the police responsible for my state currently mentions: 31.800 employees for 10,47 mio people, so making avg. 329 people to protect per employee.

background info:
<me> well, I am currently obsessed with one aspect:
<me> (that's why I posted that blog)
<me> that people see decentralization and such as cure
<me> which is false
...
<me> ... some of the people in my micro blog circles they behave like they found a cure and so
..
<me> though with a normal spider bot I can track them
<me> break into their systems
<me> they are actually a better target now