[ValleyWag] Want to see Paris Hilton’s MySpace profile? How about Lindsay Lohan’s? Don’t worry about those pesky privacy settings. Thanks to “data portability,” a faddish technology movement that the Valley has been buzzing about for months, you can see any profile you want on MySpace.

Security between two endpoints is as only as strong as the weakest link.

While users should naturally demand and expect privacy, we live in a world of the social network du-jour. Now, I’m not saying that data portability shouldn’t be blamed or that users shouldn’t feel comfortable living in the world of the ‘cloud’, but users really do need to become more aware about the hazards of being online. They shouldn’t be so giving of their personal information and publishing private details to every social network under the sun. The only way to guarantee that it doesn’t go all over the internet is not to put it there in the first place.


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