SoN 2.27: I Just Talked With Someone Else's Vault

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*********************************************** Signal Over Noise Vol 2, Issue 27 | Jul 10 2026 *********************************************** Don’t have time to read this week’s issue? Why not copy/paste it into your AI agent and ask it for insights? More than twenty years ago, I sat with a class of eleven- and twelve-year-olds and tried to show them what “connected to the internet” actually meant. We went looking on the file-sharing networks of the day - Napster, Kazaa - where people shared their music out of folders on their own machines. Within half an hour, we’d found someone’s CV sitting in the same open folder as their MP3s, with their full name, address, work history, there for anyone who wandered past. They probably hadn’t meant to share it, they’d just left the folder open and never thought about who else could see in. That was around 2003, but the door has never really closed since, it's just taken on a different form. This week I accessed someone else's documents using…

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