14 DAY TRIAL // This subject fermented all week long, but only on a superficial, surface level. The volume of media objectivity, impartial argumentation, unbiased reporting and unprejudiced analysis over AOL's monumental f*** up is down the drain, textual dejections. And the AOL per rectum pax returned to all Internet connections. All because America Online admitted to an embarrassing episode of leaking information about 658,000 of its customers. "This was a screw-up, and we're angry and upset about it. It was an innocent enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and if it had been, it would have been stopped in an instant," AOL, a unit of Time Warner, apologetically stated. "Although there was no personally identifiable data linked to these accounts, we're absolutely not defending this. It was a mistake, and we apologize. We've launched an internal investigation into what happened, and we are taking steps to ensure that this type of thing never happens again."
Let's read between the lines for a second, or let's translate this into non-corporate jargon. The message actually reads something like this:" Bla bla bla. Ba bla bla bla. Blablablabla bla blabla bla bla bla blablablablablabla!!! Bla bla bla bla bla ? Smiley face! Bla bla bla again."
And in this manner AOL got away with a minor lapsus linguae, for making public in excess of 21 million search queries under the umbrella of anonymity. Anodyne and mundane, illicit, illegal, dull, tedious, dry, inoffensive, offensive, and bizarre, without texture, senseless, or full of flavors, fashionable, stupid, smart or a stupor anomie. All facets of human existence diluted into a 439Mb downloadable file mirrored all about the Internet. AOL apologized for the leak, when it should have apologized for dehumanization and abuse of power and confidence over consumer privacy. And this is just from AOL, but a spokesperson from the Electronic frontier Foundation confirmed that the Big Brother syndrome is generalized: "All search engines collect this kind of user data, and it's valuable to marketers, insurance companies, people involved in divorce and custody battles," said Rebecca Jeschke. "If this information is available, there is a lot of temptation to release it."
1515830 searched "chai tea calories"; "calories in bananas"; "aftermath of incest"; "how to tell your family you're a victim of incest"; "pottery barn"; "curtains"; "surgical help for depression"; "oakland raiders comforter set"; "can you adopt after a suicide attempt"; "who is not allowed to adopt"; "i hate men".
17556639 searched "how to kill your wife"; "pictures of dead people"; "photo of dead people"; "car crash photo".
005315 searched "resources for utility bill paying assistance in southern california"; "section 8 housing southern california"; "los angeles county ca. gang member pictures"; "orange county california jails inmate information"; "fractured ankle"; "letters and responses written by women to emotionally"; "abusive partners"; "men that use emotional and physical abandonment to control their partner"; "warning signs of a mans infidelity or sexual addiction"; "the sociopathic relationship"; "southern california newspaper stories about woman murdered by boyfriend in pomona december2005"; "names of females murdered or found dead in pomona california in 2005"; "characteristics of a sociopath in a relationship".
9486162 searched "university of kentucky football"; "hold'em poker school"; "ways to kill yourself"; "suicide by natural gas"; "how to kill oneself by natural gas"; "assisted suicide"; "suicide by overdosing"; "how long does carbon monoxide poisoning take to kill a person"; "over dose ways to commit suicide".
336865 searched "sexy pregnant ladies naked"; "nudist"; "sexy feet"; "child rape stories"; "tamagotchi town.com"; "preteen sex stories"; "illegal child porn"; "incest stories"; "10 year old nude pics"; "preteen nude models"; "illegel anime porn"; "yu-gi-oh".
You think you know but you have no idea! This is your life, one search at a time! Ever used a search engine? Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, AOL? Congratulations!!! YOU have been INDEXED!!!
Somewhere between query space describing the population of searches; user sessions related to formulaic patterns comprised in the ecosystem of singular sessions; user behavior denoting categories of user based interactions with the search service; operational requirements ranking time-volume efficiency; content space summarizing the scope of search results and user demographics, your search profile is constructed search by search.
Through the looking glass you can be resumed in percentages and ratios, divided, summed up, multiplied, you are not even a zero, or binary or Boolean; you are a point statistic in search for the ultimate fragment of porn. Behaviorism, group psychology, social engineering, navigational patterns, you are the alien element in the binary orchestra, you are random and stochastic. A statistic, a parameter in a search equation, query metrics. An appendix to its own creation, an accessory to the source code.
You are 0.FLESH? Carnis ab absurdo? Obey your search master?! Q.E.D.
