On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One way of looking at this is as follows: > > If one wants to prevent people from knowing some particular thing about you > in an age where both ubiquitous onlines presence as well as ubiquitous > search/surveillance technologies are realities, then one approach is to just > make so much data available that it becomes difficult to pick out the > embarrassing bits.
That is a possibility. However, it is merely a matter of a better search algorithm to fish out the juicy bits. > Example: > > http://www.google.co.in/search?q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22&num=100 > > Unless you are specifically looking for it (i.e., you already know what > you're searching for) you will not find my n00b usenet posts in this mix. Let me take a dig.... First off, I will do a groups (usenet) search instead of a straight up web search. Usenet usually has juicier bits: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22udhay%20shankar%20n%22&num=100&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg Looks like your divorce from Eudora is a long and painful one starting circa 2002: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows/browse_thread/thread/c79691f379ab929b/9656e92ae9f59f19?lnk=st&q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#9656e92ae9f59f19 Hmmm. What a strange fascination with Amazonia.... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/24c4f339e67d86a4/92c4f2b69a5b9d0a?lnk=st&q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#92c4f2b69a5b9d0a Ummmm.... A test message to sci.logic. You must not have heard of misc.test? http://groups.google.com/group/sci.logic/browse_thread/thread/2074a359a023f9f1/0930f85088e8f6fe?lnk=st&q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#0930f85088e8f6fe Tut, tut! Spam on usenet. What next? Green card lottery?: http://groups.google.com/group/biz.marketplace.non-computer/browse_thread/thread/c8b019064d292946/7715932902f62e10?lnk=st&q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#7715932902f62e10 Lookee here, an early reference to silk on usenet: http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.new-lists/browse_thread/thread/f3c2b70f11741677/7d725da9d29d1752?lnk=st&q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#7d725da9d29d1752 etc. I agree that there isn't anything truly damning. But it took me less than 10 minutes to dig the above. Someone with more time, a better profile of the subject, an axe to grind and a subject that is active on social networks can turn up better stuff than this. Thaths -- Bart: We were just planning the father-son river rafting trip. Homer: Hehe. You don't have a son. Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
