In the cloud identity – can we protect it?

Last few years can be called a “social networking era”. Just remember the rise ups (and depressions) of myspace.com, linked.in etc. These networks are now completely shadowed by FaceBook and Twitter. Even when myspace and similar networks are not that widespread today, they were at the beginning of all. It becomes more and more usual to identify a real ego with social network profile. That’s not too dangerous in its basis, but there’s a big problem – people completely loose a sense for their privacy on internet. This is not an attitude against social networks, it’s only a thought about dangerous habits appearing with the social networking phenomenon. The risk is not the existence of social networks, the risk is how people behave there.
A question has been asked in the title – can we protect your in the cloud identity? I must say – no, we probably can’t protect you, because we would have to protect you against yourself. What we can do is to protect you against localised “3rd party” attacks such as fraudulent software trying to steal your personal data directly from your PC. We absolutely can’t block you while you’re typing your name, address, phone number, social security number, credit card number etc. voluntarily to any legit site. And that’s it. Once you decide to join any social network, you should (continue reading...)