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Life in a glass house
The Internet deprived us of confidentiality
Smartphones, tablets, navigators, social networks and search engines - all this makes up the comfort of a modern person. And this also deprives his life of any confidentiality. Everything - love, interests, trips, purchases, sins - becomes the subject of third -party observation. In the pros and cons of life, the public display was versed in the main topic of The New Times
Oleg Pytov used to serve in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and for the past 14 years he has been engaged in private detective activities and is headed by the portal of the detective.rf: “If there is a person on the Internet, and he is there, because even a schoolboy is in a hurry to sit down for a computer, then I also have it. I had a case when a teenager left home, leaving no information about himself. The call of acquaintances and friends did not give results. At school, a teenager also did not appear. Then I decided to act through one of the social networks. He first found his friends, and went out through them through them. He added to a teenager as a friend and wrote that I was interested in pumping phones - parents said that many classmates treat this to her son. He offered money for the service and agreed on a meeting. ”
Rangers 2.0
According to the detective, his and his colleagues are interested in all the information about people, and it, as a rule, is always in the public domain. Full name, age, gender, city of residence, friends' contacts, photography that sets an identity, movement, the last entry on a web page, statuses-everything goes into business. “I was looking for one debtor who threw its employers,” says Pyatov. - And I found it on the "Odnoklassniki" website. In his questionnaire, he stood the status of "drove home." I knew that he was from the Samara province, then the work of technology. ”
The case of Internet equipment was the disclosure of a loud crime in the United States. On the evening of August 17, 2002, Justin Barber and his wife April walked along the beach in Florida. A man in a cap quickly walked towards them quickly. He took out a gun and shot at Justin. When he woke up, he saw his wife’s body floating in the water with a shot head. The killer disappeared. Justin took April in his arms and tried to reach the road. Four bullets were stuck into it - in the left hand, in both shoulders and in the right chest. The motorcyclist who passed by called 911. Four years later Justin Barber, a young and successful businessman, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the right to conventionally-like exemption for a worst murder. There was no man in the cap - Barber first shot his wife, and then he put four bullets in himself. The investigation found: all the years of married life, Barber cheated on his wife and also mired in debt that he hoped to cover $ 2 million with the help of April insurance. The main evidence against Barber was the search query in Google, which he gained six months before the murder on the beach: “The injury caused by pistol shots in his right chest.”
All moves are recorded
The main thing that we must not forget: everything that once hit the World Wide Web remains there forever. Every stupid comment, every jealous letter, every drunk photo from the party, every phone number, home address or passport number-everything that has ever been published on the Internet remains there, is indexed and copied. And it can always be found and used. For you or against you.
This happened when thousands of SMS messages sent to Yandex sent to MegaFon subscribers from the operator’s website. Then-shopping data in dozens of online stores. Names, surnames, IP and home addresses, shopping lists, payment methods. Clothing, car supplies, goods from sex shops. Following the network, Russian Railways with all the data of traveling sailed, and then, finally, for open access with GOV.ru, the server of state authorities, more than 100 documents marked with the heading “secret” and “for official use” from the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the Accounts Chamber, the Ministry of Economic Development and other structures.
The Internet discovery has their own supporters and their opponents. Say, the sister of the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Randy, who until recently worked on Facebook, marketing director, claims: it is necessary to make sure that everything will use their real names on the Internet and then a new, open era will come, when everyone, before committing stupidity, will think many times.
But is this new era so good where everyone lives in glass houses in sight? “With the exception of credit card numbers, passport data and the like, the likelihood that the information posted by an adult about himself on the Web can be used with an evil intent or for fraudulent purposes is small,” says Natalya Kasperskaya, general director of Infowatch, companies engaged in protecting information. According to her, children are most vulnerable in these conditions. Kasperskaya knows what he talks about, because in April of this year her son Ivan, working in Infowatch, was abducted. The aiming for criminals was the page of the VKontakte young man, where he constantly reported on his movements and plans. But even if you do not describe his every step, a modern person still reports excessively a lot of himself: “Register on a social network, a person publishes various kinds of information about himself. For example, when filling out registration forms, which then form a profile and a basic “summary” about the user on its page, enters the community, make friends - when a certain mass of such information is accumulated, the anonymity of the user on the network is reduced. Having such information, to understand the sphere of your activity, the circle of your communication, your place of residence and so on is quite simple, ”says Kaspersky. And it reminds-the same social networks regularly become victims of hackers and Internet mestericists. So, for example, a hacking of an account on “Odnoklassniki” and “VKontakte” and then the newsletter of spam from them is an ordinary phenomenon.
All have already been found
Stephen Rambam, founder and head of the detective agency Pallorium Inc. -The world-famous detective with 25 years of experience. Since 1994, the Rambam has been involved in all events of the Hope - Hackers on Planet Earth. He travels to countries with a series of many hours of lectures "there is no private life, humble yourself." “Now you, having a phone number, enter it in the field of your database and immediately get a full report,” says Rambam. - I get your name, address, social insurance number, date of birth, car number, vehicles, family ties, history of residence and employment. It is no longer necessary to make a vinaigrette yourself. Everything is interconnected. Everything is issued on a saucer. ” In his speech, the Rambam makes the main emphasis on the fact that everything that got into the network never disappears from there: “All information in digital form from the moment of its occurrence is absorbed into the system. Your medical records are introduced by a nurse into its desktop computer. When you go somewhere, you no longer have paper tickets. Your story of bank transfers is available. I can make an account by phone, go to the bank account management, and after 30 seconds I will have money. ”
How to escape
Every day, the number of users on the Internet is growing, posts, photographs, money transfers, the volume of other important files is growing exponentially. But although there is no way back and not written, but the posted cannot be deleted, there are a number of actions that can still be taken to create the appearance of some privacy. “When registering on forums, chats, blogs and other portals, indicate nicknames that do not indicate you, your location or your interests. Have a few e -mails: one for registration on sites, the other for work, the third - for communication with friends, - advises the detective to torture. “If you need to hide, confuse traces, give out false or incomplete information about yourself.” A detective believes that if you have nothing to hide, except for income from Nigeria’s diamond mines, then you can write anything. But you need to remember that “life is a difficult thing, and if yesterday you were not needed by anyone, then tomorrow you may well hunt various organizations and private individuals,” so you should not tell everything about yourself.
The well-known street artist Banksy, known for the fact that no one still knows who he is, where he is, how many years old he is, what is he, the color of the skin, religion, once changed the famous phrase of another famous artist, Andy Warhol, that in the future everyone will have 15 minutes of fame. According to Banksy, "in the future, everyone will receive his 15 minutes of anonymity."
Information leakage in recent years 
In 2009, more than 130 thousand accounts of VKontakte users were posted in open access;
In 2009, the data of 5,000 bank cards of the company who participated in the Sony marketing program were stolen;
In 2010, the SCRIBD.com file -proprietary website posted a list of 4579 identifiers to postal services - mainly working addresses and passwords of users of social networks “VKontakte” and “Odnoklassniki”;
In 2010-a leak of data from credit card data of millions of Russian-users of the Chronopay payment system due to hacker hacking; Due to the data leakage, Alfa-Bank was forced to block cards of more than 7 thousand customers;
In 2010, the Microsoft authentication system failure, which opened free access to 460 million user accounts for several hours;
In 2010, more than 100 million users Facebook were posted on the Pirate Bay tracker - the programmer wrote a malicious program that has scanned accounts;
In 2010, Myspace & Facebook transferred the personal data of millions of users to third -party commercial organizations through gaming applications;
In 2011, the data of 12,700 Credit cards of Sony Online Entertainment users were stolen, and hackers also gained access to 26 million accounts with personal information due to a gap in a system that was opened within two days.
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