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Why is it that for every single online service you need an account?
Even if you only use it once, you get forced to leave some more or less sensible data behind without it ever being deleted for inactivity. Forums or social networks perhaps may do this due to saving webspace on their servers which can be used again for active customers.
But the more important services where you leave behind the number of your credit card, the number of your bank account or the information where you live - they never seem to do this kind of maintenance.
The given information rots there until the very day, or until the service vanishes or something else radically changes on it.
On the other hand, registering and getting an account always was preached as a kind of "security method" to avoid anonymous hating, spamming, fraud and all other kinds of human ugliness.
If somebody wanted to use a service, he should leave behind who he is so that if he abused the platform the offerer could call him into his responsibilities.
It's a fallacy to think that this would stop anyone from committing misbehavior.
Sometimes, if you're unlucky, their discrediting words are even protected by the American "freedom of speech" and there's only the way left to the user to shut down all gates to make it impossible for the insultor to reach the person of his disgust.
Another time someone plays with false data and it would be hard to find him even if you wanted to. And if so, it would take a while.
And even if an insultor or fraud joined the game with honest personal data, it sometimes takes a while until the service reacts to his mischievous behavior.
So - what kind of use have accounts then except for business, if the security they should deliver is always dependent on the user who is behind it?
Even if you only use it once, you get forced to leave some more or less sensible data behind without it ever being deleted for inactivity. Forums or social networks perhaps may do this due to saving webspace on their servers which can be used again for active customers.
But the more important services where you leave behind the number of your credit card, the number of your bank account or the information where you live - they never seem to do this kind of maintenance.
The given information rots there until the very day, or until the service vanishes or something else radically changes on it.
On the other hand, registering and getting an account always was preached as a kind of "security method" to avoid anonymous hating, spamming, fraud and all other kinds of human ugliness.
If somebody wanted to use a service, he should leave behind who he is so that if he abused the platform the offerer could call him into his responsibilities.
It's a fallacy to think that this would stop anyone from committing misbehavior.
Sometimes, if you're unlucky, their discrediting words are even protected by the American "freedom of speech" and there's only the way left to the user to shut down all gates to make it impossible for the insultor to reach the person of his disgust.
Another time someone plays with false data and it would be hard to find him even if you wanted to. And if so, it would take a while.
And even if an insultor or fraud joined the game with honest personal data, it sometimes takes a while until the service reacts to his mischievous behavior.
So - what kind of use have accounts then except for business, if the security they should deliver is always dependent on the user who is behind it?