Billions of Internet Users Should Have Internet Access?

Husbands and wives, dalliance partners, and sundry other people that think they know, understand, and can use the Internet have found their "personal information" stored on Ashley Madison's web site exposed on the Internet. Billions more have enrolled their kids on the Internet, and they too think themselves intelligent and forward/right-thinking in doing so. That they and their families are somehow served by and for the Internet, and that anything untoward occurring to them via the Internet is now something we - members of the Internet and the communities we live in - are now beholden to them, to protect them, and anyone else like them that think they know the Internet.

The Internet is like a billion train tracks, all requiring a single step in order to cross them, or to fail crossing them.

It does not matter who exposed Ashley Madison user information, to my thinking, merely because the very same people crying foul exposed it to Ashley Madison, and likely, thousands upon thousands of other web sites they haunt. In fact, using the Internet for sharing of personal, private, and sensitive information of any kind is something smart people avoid doing. Just ask the experts! You know them! The same ones who recommend you shop here or there, offer "top ten ways to make your web page popular", twat this, twit that, yadda yadda! Even those behind the Ashley Madison "brand"  exposed it to the world. How else did it become public knowledge if the very same people who hype the secretiveness and privacy offered by Ashley Madison's site haven't somehow proven how secrecy and privacy, on the Internet, only exist in the minds of those who think such things exist.

Quite obvious. Ashley Madison haven't "got" security. In fact 99 percent of the Internet-using populace cant wipe their own collective asses online, let alone "manage" their personal lives on it. That all AM's clients somehow expect them to have security, when they themselves are likely using a box even less secure, sorta shows where all this "I want the web policed with my/your/everyone's tax dollars" is going. Toronto police made a public plea for help from white-hat hackers, and anyone else that tramps through the Intarweb unnerground. Brilliant!

"People" are being hurt by this, we are told. People that, a decade or so ago, would balk at doing anything personal, private, and monetarily sensitive online!

As someone who has been using computers long before the Internet boom of the 90s, I can with confidence tell you that I fully expect all of my private and public information to be exposed to public scrutiny on the Internet. Anyone that knows me personally, and those who can dig up dirt on the net, are people who exist in my mind, and people whose powers and capabilities I fully appreciate. That any of my personal information should remain hidden is only a matter of time, luck, and perhaps a tiny modicum of skill on my part.

Be assured. The only privacy that exists is that which you keep in your head, to yourself, and off the Internet. When you wave at the world online, they ride the same rails you, and all can get run over. The Internet police? Good luck with that. Why not watch the Do Not Cross signals blink and enjoy the view.

New BleachBit Cleaners - Simutrans & TeraCopy and more

I have created Simutrans.XML and TeraCopy.XML CleanerML files (and more. See update below), for use with the popular program, BleachBit. The files are available from my GoogleDrive and need to be placed in the Share/Cleaners/ folder of your BleachBit installation in order for them to become available in the program.

Note: As a precaution, I suggest you obtain BleachBit from the developer, and use the cleanerML mark-up provided by his program.

All the usual caveats apply when using the CleanerML files I have created, and you are free to edit and share them - and I would hope you share your changes/improvements with the developer. Mine have been submitted to the developer, and may or may not be included in updates of the program (The reason why you should use caution with them as the developer may not approve them). Of note, the Simutrans cleaner has facilities to clean out all files stowed in the user height maps, screenhots, and saved games directories/folders. All of this content is either placed there manually by the user, or initiated by the user in Simutrans. So no warnings are issued as it is assumed the user is aware of what he or she has in these locations.

Enjoy, and look forward to more in future.

Update 06/08/2015:

Additional cleanerML mark-up has been created for Akelpad, Audacity, DirMaster, Goldwave, kchmviewer, Paint.NET, SketchUp Make, Textsrch, and VirtualDub, all being Windows software, all being available on my GoogleDrive and Github. I have also altered the mark-up to make it more compliant with the BleachBit developer's own mark-up, and have made it available to him. When/If it becomes part of the distributed BleachBit program in it's current or an altered form is solely up to him.

One additional cleaner - "virtualdub-scripts-and-sparse.xml" contains warnings and mark-up that may delete files that VirtualDub users might not want deleted. I do not expect this to become part of BleachBit (see comment below). The files it targets have the following extensions: .JOBS, .SYL, .VCF, and .SPARSE. All are user created/generated and in my opinion, fall within the scope of what BleachBit is meant to clean. But I am not all users, so I leave it up to you and suggest you heed the warnings if you use this mark-up.

Update: 03/09/2015:

Created a cleaner for Stuffit.

Update: 06/18/2016:

Created a cleaner for PokerTH.