In other words, trust no company, trust no person. – Akiva Moskovitz

Side Bar: If you are going to share shit, make sure you know who can see it and take full advantage of any privacy tools. If you can’t lock it down to your liking, see somewhere you can and share there. Failing that, see Step 1. Never assume, it makes an ASS out of U and ME – Johnny Worthington

I’ve been saying this for years – Jesse Stay

Not that what I say matters – Jesse Stay

Or: Even vaults and safety deposit boxes can be broken into. It’s about risk and trust… and know each of them – Johnny Worthington

It’s not about the Sharing. It’s about the Basic Personal Info. – Christopher Galtenberg

If you don’t want Basic Personal Info shared online, don’t put it there. Again, it’s about risk. There is risk in leaving your credit card statements sitting in your letterbox or leaving your wallet on a counter for more that a sec. Risk Assessment. – Johnny Worthington

If the internet can’t deal with personal private data, it won’t work. I thought you felt this way too, JW. – Christopher Galtenberg

Christopher, the phone company can’t guarantee 100% security on calls (fixed lines or cellular), the mail can be tampered with, offices can be bugged, your baggage is scanned at the airport and your wallet can be stolen. No system, physical or digital, is 100% secure. China hacked Gmail. Shit, courier pigeons can be shot down. Since EVERYTHING is <100%, each person must undertake a risk assessment when sharing critical data. If you must have 100%, then a communication channel that is run by a series of commercial entities and less than stellar governments probably isn’t for you. That doesn’t mean it’s 0% secure (probably more like 90-95% secure) but looking for a perfect solution is futile unless you control every point, A to B. – Johnny Worthington

http://www.youtube.com/watch… – Jesse Stay

By your logic, JW, everything is actually safe (equally trustworthy, relatively) – Christopher Galtenberg

Not exactly. I trust my bank more than I do Facebook or Gmail… but I don’t assume my bank is just 100% safe. Levels of trust. I have performed risk assessments on each online entity and determined what I would feel comfortable about disclosing. – Johnny Worthington

Anything can be hacked. Anything can leak. Trust is a risk and some levels adjust over time, usually down to lower levels. – manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Back to the original post: that’s how I’ve always treated the Internet. Those MySpace/Facebook kiddies who have to show the whole world the most embarrassing stuff they do always appalled me. I’ve always been careful what I share online, even if I sometimes use my blogs or Twitter as a soapbox. – Dennis Jernberg

Indeed! *thinks back to the DYSP video* – Johnny Worthington

@Chris: And that, of course, is why we have to be so careful. Forethought… – Dennis Jernberg

Oh no, Don Ho! – Joey Gibson

Joey, I never heard that one before. LOL – Anika Malone

Oh no, Don Ho LOL!! – Mona N.

I heard that one from Wierd Al. – Joey Gibson

"May a moody baby doom a yam?" – Joey Gibson

Madam I’m adam – Christian (Simply X)

"No ‘X’ in Nixon" – Joey Gibson

A Man, A Plan, A Canal – Panama! – Lorin Olsen

Able was I ere I saw Elba – Greg (GuitarBuster)

Yo Banana Boy – Rod Bauer

Race fast, safe car – MikeAmundsen

Red rum, sir, is murder. – Bwana

"Able was I ere I saw Elba" – Napolean on his gf – vijay

DoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooD – Matthew DeVries

racecar runner-up for me is SONOS – Mike Doeff

Lorin, I’m a big fan of "A Man, A Plan, A Canal – Suez!" – Andrew C

Joey that’s an awesome find – Shey

Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo – Shey

Shey, that’s one I’ve never heard before! Nicely done. – Anika Malone

Madam in Eden I’m Adam. – Logical Extremes

@Anika Actually, that’s from Joey’s Wierd Al Video http://bit.ly/Q45Jd – Shey

Oh cameras are macho – Mark Wilson

Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog – tinypants (Amanda H)

satan oscillate my metallic sonatas (and a favorite Soundgarden release, too) – Neil Bernhart

That’s a great one, Neil. Lie Nenota erga staht. – Josh Haley

Rats live on no evil star – Haggis (Sean)

A Toyota’s a Toyota – Kevin LeCRUSH

Rise to vote sir. – Daniel Rowley

next stop, adult nappies! – alphaxion

Ha.. just wait… :-) – Jim McCusker

i get one every so often. i take a pair of tweezers and yank it out. – Jason Shultz

TMI? – possibleReal248

yeah, kinda depressing when the barber has to ‘shave’ your ears for ya. – MikeAmundsen

You never noticed before? We’ve known for a long time through the miracles of internet video ;-) – Logical Extremes

Nature is very cruel – hair everywhere except the one place I want it :-( – Kevin Cearns

That’s not a good look! ;-) – Kol Tregaskes

tell me about it… – SoN9ne

Have you checked your back lately? – orionstarr

When I noticed this happening to me, my roommate confirmed that it had been grossing her out for a long time, but she didn’t have the heart to tell me. Now I have to shave my ears. – Scott

Welcome to middle age. – Chris Baskind

I’ve got a nose hair trimmer that I’ll use on my ears. My wife reminds me whenever growth appears. :) – Mike Reynolds

Welcome to being old. My wife pulls them off while in the car. Not something to do when your driving. – Chris W

Put that Norelco 5000 riding lawn mower on your Christmas wish list – it’ll come in handy. (Q. V.: back, knuckles . . . I’ll stop there.) – John Craft

that’s how it starts – Mister Groonk

Chris, appropriately enough, Tad refers to those as "gnome hairs"! – Lindsay D.

I’d also like to add that your ears will continue to grow every year. Just thought you’d like to hear that! :D – Daynah

Funny. This doesn’t SOUND like AC/DC. – Akiva Moskovitz

Caption This Photo or I’m going to plug this to my ear! – AJ Batac ♘

WTF is THAT above your right eyebrow?! – Mona N.

(Hello from Row 5!) – Who said that? – Anthony Stevens

Chris Pirillo, unplugged – Dave Hodson

OK, Akiva wins. – Jason

But i was going into town to pick up some power converters! – John Worthington

Don’t come any closer, man, I’LL DO IT – ωαřмaiden

Just when one thought water boarding was a sure way to obtain a confession, a new method of interrogation called The Plug In has been discovered to the chagrin of human rights activists worldwide! – Roney Smith

Nice glasses. – JMakesAwesomeSauce

p1uggergn0me – John Worthington

Yes, Akiva wins… LOL – ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Chris takes his idea of Human Circuitry to the next level… – John Worthington

I want 1 MIIIIIILLLLIOOOON Dollars or I plug this into my head. – Bored

And, of course, the obvious one: Plug-and-Play. – Akiva Moskovitz

Gross! – Andru Edwards

This is a new application of neural networking. – jokrausdu

unfortunately, early attempts at neural inputs jacks have failed, however on a more curious note it has been discovered that ear wax from geeks contains an inordinate amount of energy. – Jerry Schuman

A new vision of human circuitry as demonstrated by Chris Pirillo – dan

+1 Mona, a horn? – Majento

Short Circuit 2: Some say he’s nuts. Some say he’s bolts. But can Number Five make it in the big, bad city? Keep your wires crossed. – £ogical €xtremes

eXistenZ is paused! – Rodfather

Pirillo in the middle of a cold reboot. – Jerry Schuman

Hairplugs 2.0 – Erik S

lets recharge ! – Prashanth Randadath

I needs more power Scottie! – Susan Beebe

…must…consume…more…internet…. – Amber aka SDA

Are you Plugged into me? Are YOU plugged into me? I don’t see anyone else here.. – Bored

Damn! Forgot to buy Q-Tips. Again! – Michael Hussein Markman

What’s the frequency Kenneth!? – Gerald Buckley

"wait, i thought this new stuff was supposed to be wireless … " – Gregory Lent

I need a outlet to plug in my light up pimple – Outsanity

I feel the same. – Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Chris: stop misleading. In your case they are the same! :-) – Robert Scoble

I couldn’t agree more Chris! – Kyle Lacy

Because they haven’t had the same experience? All my RL friends that don’t do much online, don’t understand. The ones that are online, do. – ·[•_•]·

My online friends have shown me than they are MORE awesome than my offline friends. Not to say that my offline friends are not awesome, but that they are not exactly an informative/technologically-inclined type of crowd. For me: The more you know about tech, the more awesome you are :) – Michael Forian

probably awesomer. – Tim Hoeck

I completely understand. I get strange looks from people when I tell them that my closest friends are ones I have known online for ten years but never met. – Aden

It was not very long ago that friendships and romances were carried out almost exclusively (sometimes exclusively) by post, aka snail mail, that really was slow as hell and took weeks to be delivered. – Michael W. May

I’m guessing some people analogize online friends with imaginary friends… but I agree and I have more on friends than off – Far

I have many good friends online. Now with things like Skype to go beyond IM, why not? – Jake (aka Jawee)

My husband started out as my online friend. :D – Rochelle

@Aden Yea, I get strange reactions too when I tell my RL friends the same thing. But hey, I ended up meeting them for the first time at my wedding. :) – Daynah

A listers are just filler until you get to the great folks – Simian DA (Amber)

I follow everyone just to see the noise that the A listers put into the system that ISN’T paid attention to. – Robert Scoble

Well, that, and I just like the noise from everyone. – Robert Scoble

Who started that term ‘noise’ anyway? It sounds rude. The things people share and the comments they post are far from ‘noise’ imo. – Mona N.

I don’t think the A-list truly exists. Link? ;) – Josh Haley

noise is a very generic term mona; I think you are trying to put it into the wrong context when thinking that – Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

think it comes from the "river of noise" designation regarding twitter – Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

A listers! I love that term. Who do these people think they are? None of them are changing the world. – Ryan

Mona: you should try following 20,000 on Twitter like I do. Then you’d understand what I’m saying when I say "noise." – Robert Scoble

@Ryan – maybe not changing the world, but often they change my day… and usually for the better. – Lindsay Donaghe

Ryan: you do realize what "A" stands for, don’t you? It isn’t positive. :-) – Robert Scoble

mjc: Wrong context? That is how I view that term… but now that I read your second comment, I see now. Remember? I didn’t flow from Twitter to here? – Mona N.

I’m not hating on A-listers as much as I’m hating on the haters who labeled people A-listers. – Ryan

then we have people like me who have exhausted the letters and numbers lists and had to start on the non-standard characters to define their ranking ;) – alphaxion

I want to follow the ~listers. – Lindsay Donaghe

mjc: "signal to noise ratio" borrowed from radio and electrical engineering, and then subsequently applied to usenet groups, etc., is a phrase that has been around for awhile. Noise = stuff you don’t care about. http://www.netlingo.com/lookup… – Laura Norvig

Yeah, but Scoble – if you follow 20,000, some degree of noise is to be expected. :) Twitter, to me, is a craps shoot for content – that’s why I like it. You never know what’s going on. Noise can also be seen as a chance for serendipity. FriendFeed is much the same way – I’ve come to appreciate that aspect of "social networks." – l0ckergn0me

@Scoble really? I guess I had a different definition of A-lister. – Ryan

Robert: But FriendFeed is different from Twitter. Twitter is so one sided. With @replies galore and one sided conversations up the wa-zoo. FriendFeed is way different, imho. – Mona N.

@l0ckergn0me you’re an a-lister so this is somewhat circular – Jeremiah Owyang

Serendipity is the major reason to swim in noise. – Robert Scoble

D-Listers Unite! White Noise Platform! (picture a crowd of people holding placards with nothing but TV-snow on em, and shouting from megaphones that just emit a raspy SHHHH of static) – Marko

Robert’s got seriously huge floaties to "swim" so well in all this noise! – Susan Beebe

I don’t know that I could unsubscribe from any of the "A-listers" because they are often responsible for starting discussions that would never get started, involving people who never would have been able to be involved in the discussion. I’ve found FF to be a truly fascinating social experiment. – Kenton

I don’t even know who the a-listers are…if you are interesting (meaning you have a pulse and post mostly in english) I will probably subscribe to you…if you subscribe to me, have a pulse and speak mostly in english I will subscribe to you – AlexScoble(Robert’sBro)

Who are the A-listers? – Jonathan (Bad Robot)

This is fun and all, but I feel like the Architect rebooted the Matrix or something… – Mark Dykeman

excellent point. but aren’t you also ALIST? – Noah David Simon

No, Noah, Chris is king of the G-list (G in this instance alternatively standing for Gnome or Geek) – AlexScoble(Robert’sBro)

@alex I find there is a degree of popularity contest about it too.. regardless of what some people have to say, they get ignored for others who post vacuous but ego massaging posts. T’is the way of the world really! cyber or meat space are more alike than many realise. – alphaxion

Yeah, you are probably right, alpha…I’m just looking for interesting conversations, personally – AlexScoble(Robert’sBro)