Postscript: Who's Looking In My Drawers

Truer than what I said the other day:

Today, the New York Times did a feature on Aleksey Vayner, an earnest 21-year-old Yale undergraduate who had sent a video of himself as part of his job applications.

According to the article, Mr. Vayner "submitted an 11-page resume and elaborate video clip to UBS. It then showed up on two blogs, and then quickly spread to every corner of the Internet. The clip, staged to look like a job interview spliced with shots of Mr. Vayner’s athletic prowess, flooded e-mail inboxes across Wall Street and eventually appeared on the video-sharing site YouTube. And the overwhelming reaction was mocking laughter.

Mr. Vayner is not amused. Instead, he said he feels like a victim. The job materials that were leaked and posted for public view included detailed information about him that allowed strangers to scrutinize and harass him, he said. His e-mail inbox quickly filled up, with most of the messages deriding him and, in certain cases, threatening him. Since the video surfaced on the Internet, Mr. Vayner said he has deleted at least 2,000 pieces of e-mail."

I rest my case.