[LINK] A bizarre twist on a twist - unreal online persona hi-jacked

[Jan Whitaker]

At 02:12 PM 18/04/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

>The great unwashed don't have the same perspective re the risks as I do
>and gaily assume that the digital universe is as certain as the physical
>world. Is that their fault? Has anybody really explained these things to
>them? Would they believe the message? Considering what many people
>believe about the real world, I somehow doubt it.

I would say that not only the general public, but also the government 
and commerce humans you mention. They are made up of humans who are 
sold a sometimes rotten bill of goods in order for the seller to make 
a buck. All we have to do is look at the current debacleS in Qld to 
see that in play.

In a virtual world, everything is fakeable, or as the older aphorism 
said, on the internet, no one needs to know you're a dog. Seems to be 
something that needs to be added to school curricula in the space of 
'critical thinking in a digital age'. It's a major shift in world view.

What I thought was ironic in the article was the point that instead 
of someone stealing his work to publish under a different name, it 
was the reverse. Probably someone has done a logic diagram of the 
various permutations of these components for a dissertation somewhere.

Jan



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