Mine has been on that long too! It started with a run in with the DOD; of all organizations. Even back then, they were scary as to what they knew and could do in the way of getting data you thought was destroyed or safe.
My wife was at fault, she showed me a picture on Classmates of a woman who she thought I went to school with. She went to a different school though and we were at the site for a total of about 5 minute. Two days later I got a call from the DOD to meet me about my computer use and wanted to meet and discuss it. I thought it was a joke until they started reeling off details about me and my wife and strongly suggested it was in my best interest to meet them at a public place.
To make a long and scary story shorter, the woman who my wife had me look at her picture started getting threatening and bizarre emails shortly after that - her husband was in the military so they called the DOD. Since I had been to the site and "fit the profile" - I was targeted. They knew EVERY site I had been to, how long I stayed, and quite a bit about me, my wife, most everything about us, and that was downright scary. Once they were satisfied we weren't the ones; I talked to the agents a bit and they shared what they could do with a computer to get the data extracted and how much they knew about what people did online. This was in the early '90s.
What they can do now is even scarier. So if they can do it, so can the bad guys (or gals) out there and worse. In my years of being in high tech, I know these things to be true. They say the only computer safe from hackers is one in a safe at the bottom of the ocean, but that is not true since it can still be recovered...the matrix can suck at times!
