[silk] See you on the other side

2009-07-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
A slightly more tawdry, but almost equally creepy, version of something we've discussed before here [1] - messages (seemingly) from beyond the grave. I logged into my various IM accounts after several days, and was greeted by an offline message advertising some dubious site, purportedly from a

Re: [silk] See you on the other side

2009-07-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
be closed. srs -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Udhay Shankar N Sent: Friday, 10 July 2009 12:04 PM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] See you

Re: [silk] See you on the other side

2009-07-10 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:04, Udhay Shankar Nud...@pobox.com wrote: It got me wondering, what are the policies at various sites, such as yahoo and google, for account-holders who die? What happens to their data? The parents writing in actually helped with Google Mail for one friend,[1] and

Re: [silk] See you on the other side

2009-07-10 Thread Thaths
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Udhay Shankar Nud...@pobox.com wrote: It got me wondering, what are the policies at various sites, such as yahoo and google, for account-holders who die? What happens to their data? We should all write scripts that run somewhere in the cloud that parses RSS

Re: [silk] See you on the other side

2009-07-10 Thread Raul
From the planning perspective (by Cory Doctorow): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/30/data-protection-internet There are also interesting comments at HN about the article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=681753