The design of the Internet allows for an incredible amount of decentralization. My blog, is run on my server, and yet you can all get to it. We don’t have to have all blogs in one place. And that is a good thing.

I got three notices recently that highlight one of many downsides of centralization. Epsilon had a data breach, and the dominoes fall all over the place.

Marriott International email dated April 4 2011 notifying customers of unauthorized access to Epsilon email list Hilton HHonors data breach notification letter signed by Jeffrey Diskin, Senior Vice President Customer Marketing TiVo Service Announcement email notifying customers of an email address data breach via their third-party email service provider Epsilon