6th July 2010, 9:26 PM
I wouldn't say that just NOT trying to share your name and address online is the digital equivalent of guard dogs. I'm not sure what the equivalent would be, but that's not really it. This is just like shredding documents and credit cards before throwing them away. By all likelyhood, no one's shifting around in your garbage, but it's just reasonable.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)