Changes - Adrian Wyllie

We all do things on the internet that we later find crazy. We then do everything we can to hide them, to forget them. But the one thing about the internet is, once it's there, anyone and everyone can see it. So we hide behind these 'firewalls' that are supposed to protect us and keep our information safe. Are they really working?
There have been several 'leaks' on the internet, things that were released to the public that the government did not want us to see. The question is, were they ever private in the first place? The simple, not very complicated answer is yes. The truth, however, is as far from that as possible.
Firewalls, networks, complicated virus detection systems, we are obsessed with privatizing the public domain. It's like this, instead of the fence around your front yard stopping at the sidewalk, it continues, right out into the middle of the very busy street you live on, to hide your bad lawn skills. And because it's such a busy street, people have just got to get through your property. On either side of your fence over the street, there is a gate, so people going through can get through. If they just look around, they'll see your bad lawn. But here, you don't really care, because you think they don't care.
So once that single ping goes through the firewall to connect to another server, you've just leaked some of your data, that the ping may have seen. It's like trying to hide your phone in class, but you're just making it obvious.
So why do we still have these firewalls, if these gaps exist? It reassures the mind, but it doesn't actually do what it says on the box. Good luck solving that one!
That's not the only flaw with the internet, but it is the one that bugs me the most. I mean, even if you delete something on the blog here, I could find it so easily. Everything on the internet should be public, because it already is.