In the past 24 hours I have created a couple little pieces that show how healing art can be. For the past few weeks I have been holding onto a lot of anger. The kind of anger that although it was caused by someone else, was only harming me. As the Buddhist saying goes: holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Last night I created a piece I call "Seeing Red".
After a good nights sleep, I created another piece. This piece depicts blooming flowers in warm passionate colors.
When I looked at them side by side I realized that the anger portrayed in the first piece had turned into blooming blossoms in the second. Like the anger had been released.
Surveillance
Speaking as a former consultant, I know from personal experience how quickly one can get access to data. Generally, I had access to production, real life data within one week of starting at a client. Sometimes, although rarely, I had the ability to update production data. Yes, I always considered this access a responsibility and never considered using this access for my own personal gain.
However, if the data I had access to was the kind of data that this Prism system holds, I would have looked up information on former boyfriends, old friends, old enemies, family members, current crushes , relatives, famous people, etc. Even now I occasionally go into what I call psycho ex-girlfriend mode and google an ex-boyfriend to see how he is doing. While in my case it is simple curiosity, imagine if I had vindictive or stalking tendencies? What if I needed money? What if I needed or wanted a new identity?
It is sounding as though it doesn't take much to either get access or mine for data in these systems. What concerns me is how easy it is to do both and how many people have this access....