Remember I wrote this :
The people behind the Imp are a group of developers from Apple, Google, and Facebook.
Today I got an email from Facebook promoting some app. The email looked like it came from my Sister.
It wasn't her that sent it, it was an official Facebook app using her identity.
I immediately went to my Facebook profile, and deleted 8 apps I never knew I had.
Spurred on by this I searched Facebook until I found this :
http://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254/
This is a list of what Facebook says it holds about the User.
It's in alphabetical order, some of the good stuff comes low down the list.
( See this for how big Facebook is :
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/22/how-big-is-facebooks-data-2-5-billion-pieces-of-content-and-500-terabytes-ingested-every-day/ )
I cannot under any circumstances think that the cloud-based IMP, with a Facebook developer on the team, is not going to grab and disseminate as much information as it can about every IMP account, every IMP device, and every device each IMP can connect to around it.
I know I sound like a cynical Luddite, but I really believe that we are sowing the seeds of a terrorist mega-hack of such proportions that it will make 911 look tame. ( You think I'm exaggerating. 911 impacted the financial circumstances of maybe 30,000 individuals. A mega-hack could drain the bank accounts of 30 or 300 million individuals and companies, in less time than it takes to crash an airliner. How would our financial systems perform under that strain. ? )
I don't think I'll be taking to the streets with a placard saying 'The End is Nigh', but I do worry a bit.
Cheers,
Buzby