The perils of digital media

Those zeroes and ones, they're so dangerous. When your life can be destroyed by having those binary digits decoded, why would anyone commit anything in the slightest controversial, still less illegal, to silicon? Particularly to a USB stick, which can then be stolen remarkably easily. (The thief will now, doubtless, be feted as a heroine.) What an inane way to lose everything, up to and including your very existence. Days like this, I feel like deleting my blog, my e-mail accounts, everything that I've ever done in cyberspace. But it would, of course, make no difference, because all of those words will still be retained somewhere - the internet never forgets. As Orwell wrote, 'nothing (is) your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull'. His powers of prophecy never cease to amaze me.

Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B