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Another cord that I have been happy to cut for a while is landline phones.
It drives some friends nuts but I figure that if anyone really wants me and I want them they will call my cell phone.
Like the washing line, the landline phone could soon be a distant dinosaur.
Vodafone claimed this week that "the humble landline telephone - it could be extinct, or nearly extinct, in New Zealand by the year 2020".
Vodafone said that according to the Commerce Commission's Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report there are more mobile phones in New Zealand than people - 4.77 million of them. In the US and Europe, more than one-third of people don't have landlines.
But now some might be thinking the old copper wire is not such a bad thing after all.
Netsafe executive director Martin Cocker said this week that Kiwis should be aware of the risk that goes with cloud storage service, telling The New Zealand Herald, "If you consider images to be extremely sensitive, don't save them to the cloud."
His warning came after it was thought that a hacker raided celebrities' online "cloud" storage for intimate snaps, with the FBI now investigating the hacking of 101 celebrities' nude photographs and videos, including Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence (right).
Celebrities such as actress Cameron Diaz hit back at the breach of privacy.
Ironically, Diaz is promoting her new movie Sex Tape - the story of a couple who film a homemade explicit movie only for it be accidentally distributed to their friends and family.
Apple responded that hackers obtained the nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other female celebrities by pilfering images from individual accounts rather than via a broader attack on the company's services.
It said they didn't obtain general access to its iCloud or Find my iPhone services.
The question of why one would take and then store nude photographs of oneself aside, the breach of privacy is concerning, particularly in the wake of the Dirty Politics book, which is based on hacked email exchanges.
What has been curious in the Dirty Politics saga has been the little discussion about the ethics of hacking or breaching email privacy, especially given how people were up in arms over the News of the World hacking scandal.
The warnings about online storage systems will have many thinking twice about what they put on there. But often, it is not so much that people's private data is being hacked, but users of computers and smartphones are leaving themselves open by not protecting themselves properly even at a basic level with good passwords. As Juliet Rowan reports today on page 5, Bay companies are advised to tighten up on their email security. Some users are still using passwords such as "password" and "123", which is like leaving your front door open and then complaining when someone steals something.
Yes, breaching someone's privacy is wrong. But being wrong doesn't stop it happening.
So if you want to store nude photos of you, or indeed anyone else, then it pays to tighten and update your phone and internet security.
(Better still, just don't take nude photos of yourself.)
We may be turning our backs on the washing line, but social media means more dirty washing is being hung out in public than ever before.
