Web-founder’s warning over online security

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web in 1989, urged users to remember that information on the internet can be found by people who were never intended to access it. He told the current generation of social networking users to imagine their grandchildren reading the entries. 

Sir Tim said, “Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it’s all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well. 

“The danger is when you put something into a public space in order to share it with a few friends and in fact you’ve forgotten that it’s actually a public space or that the list of friends is huge or that some of them can’t be trusted not to put it somewhere else.”