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For those who think that the recent AOL privacy slip-up is not an issue since the data was masked by User IDs, here is a perfect example of just how easy it is to connect a people to their data.

Let’s just hope, as the article says, that there is a silver lining behind this type of situation and people begin to pay attention to these types of privacy issues.

Unfortunately, people are far too lazy and tend to quickly forget that most things they do online should be thought of as a matter of public record. Who among us doesn’t have an embarrassing forum post or some other form of online shenanigans databased and indexed “forever” via Google or the Wayback Machine?

Proof of this lies in the alarming amount of people that still use the name of their cat or significant other as their main password.