Have you checked your digital footprint?

Technology has sometimes gotten so scary yet most people dun realise it at all, at least before u read this of cos. Someday this week I watched an episode of Get Real! now hosted by Cheryl Foxx. She shown how normal users have left much of their personal information on this World Wide Web without even knowing it. To demonstrate she got a few IT-savvy students from Republic Poly(i think) to look for a long lost fren of hers. They have lost contact for about 20 years and all the info she gave to the students was her name, full name, nothing more nothing less. All it took the 5-6 students was about an hour or so and they found out info like her email, blog, her frens, marital status, address, telephone number among the many stuff. So with the phone number Cheryl called her long lost fren and true enough it was her.

What this show is that the WWW is not secure, at all. Many times we leave your digital footprint behind which in the end leads back to us, be it that harmless application for some freebie or u posting that ad on the classified. While most stuff the students managed to dig up are harmless, there are actually unscrupulous people who sell account info like password and stuff to equally unscrupulous people who buy them for purposes like fraud. So the next time u leave behind that phone number or address on the internet, think again.

Today I had an experience how easy it is to track a person through the internet, with just a name many information can actually come up, of course email, frens and blog would be among the most easily found. Anyway all this is NOT done by me, but by a fren of mine(I shall not say who) but he definitely did not have any evil thoughts going through his mind while he's doing it. And all he did was to goggle the name, imagine how easy it is man.

Ok genug genug, it means enough enough in german. My german tutor likes to say that in class all the time to get us to stop what we're doing. I realised the Spring O from Old Chang Kee turns out to be quite delicious, its just like the normal spring roll but thicker, more kick in it. Try it when u have the chance.

Before i forget, mi recre archery has gone on to a new level, 18m range. Gals have a little problem with this range cos u can see/hear some arrows hitting the ground instead of the board. Fundamentals and equipment really play a significant role at this range, i once shot a slightly curved arrow(its a little defective) and i saw the arrow suddenly changed course in its last 5m hitting the adjacent board instead, as if its a homing missile man. Archery is getting more fun, but its not really physically demanding, maybe next sem i shall try something else, either floorball or tennis.

Having plans to go Berkelah Waterfalls in Malaysia this Dec prob the 2nd trip (27-29) with the nus rovers since the first trip to Ophir with Colin and Chonghao was quite good. Anyone else wanna join in?