ThistleDew Farm

ThistleDew Farm
Established 2009

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Big Brother is Watching - beware

Now I know that all the security concerns I've secretly have a justified!

You know how your profile is supposed to be hidden...well some strange way - it's not.

I posted on a fun site today and when the word verification came up it was my last name with OG tacked on the end....now I don't have a very common name and it isn't spelled the way you'd think it was if I were to pronounce it.

I have this crazy personal rule about not putting to much personal info in electronic format - in my blog I never use the names of my co-workers, don't list the name of the place I work and rarely refer to work in a reality way and I am pretty sure I have never used my last name....so there really is no reason why my last name should have come up in the word verification when commenting on someone else's site unless the eye in the sky knew it was me....I don't even know how it was linked - pretty scary really!

Gotta go and take pictures for my blog -

5 comments:

Heidi D said...

That's is spooky. I notice the words it almost makes. I wonder if was really just some weird coincidence. Still, spooky.

Susie said...

I don't put too much info on my blog either. I think less is definitely better.

Connie said...

Yikes! That is strange. Sure does make you wonder.

Julia said...

I get excited when some kind of legible word gets pumped out of those things! But last names are out for sure.

Carol............. said...

BIG BROTHER'S GETTING WORSE! Beware is right! One of the gals I keep in contact with posted a comment regarding a memorial in the Mojave Desert that an activist group wanted to tear down. Monica added a link to a site
that opposed tearing it down and got a long winded comment from some very liberal attorney (so he claimed to be)....now just how did this guy find her site which is basically a women's farm/craft type site which would be of little interest to an attorney! That was scary to me! I checked out his blog and there was no blogging on his page although he had the blog page for a number of YEARS!
If you're interested check it out...
just go to followers on my page and find Monica.