If the difference between web and internet leaves you scratching your head, and you think a Tumblr is another word for beaker, read on …There’s a phrase on the internet known as “headdesk”. This is the memeification of the moment one slams one’s head down on one’s mahogany rolltop in despair, frustration, disbelief or incredulity. Or, to put it another way, how we all felt when the EU’s new digital commissioner, Günther Oettinger, didn’t understand the difference between storing images on a phone or cloud network, and wilfully uploading them for all to see online.I refer, of course, to the recent celebrity hacking scandal. Oettinger, whose full title will be commissioner for digital economy and society, said: “If someone is stupid enough as a celebrity to take a nude photo of themselves and put it online, they surely can’t expect us to protect them. Stupidity is something you can only

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