I think I can’t. My life happens overseas, here but there chatting with friends in Korea, the US, France, the UK, etc. If switching off can be overwhelming as AL writes in BSWW, it may turn out necessary!  I have been thinking about that because I watched the video of Gary McKinnon, who hacked into the computers of the NASA:

Though I am curious about experimenting with “anti-gravity” at home, I was rather interested in how Gary hacked the computers. He did that over a couple of years, maintaining a “quiet presence”. It happened to me to see my mouse move without me touching it (which felt weird at that time)… which I now know is the work of a hacker!

Anyway, Gary also said that “stopping bad practice and employ competent IT people” instead of increasing security (i.e. people need to have a password (and not a blind password, the default password), switch off connections, log on and log off, and turn off the “remote registry service”, etc.) can prevent hacking. Lately here, our Blackberry were acting funny because of an embedded “spyware”, “an application developed by American firm SS8.”  !!!

Why blogging this? Because while we are moving about in this infrastructure of full connectivity, we are also giving away a little of the self, leaving traces that are in some way … permanent. The neo-nomad maybe the new Faust, selling his sould to the devil. Though now you can sell your soul on demand, bit by bit. When asking people around about surveillance, I often get this answer: “I have nothing to hide” (meaning “I don’t care”). Can or do people care to disconnect?