Privacy And Security In Ed Park's 'Personal Days'

Interesting End From the author of the novel “Personal Days”, Ed Park conveys the bizarre ways that a human being can integrate words, letters, and even symbols, in order to maintain or upgrade his privacy and security on his devices and accounts as much as possible with the help of his sixth sense leaving the deciphering particularly impossible for any other human being. The short story comes to a more interesting ending where all those clever tricks and techniques, and the energies used in it (making passwords) come to vain, when it comes to another person robbing him at the automated teller machine on a typical night. Park turns around through the ending of the short story along with some humor, reality, irony and surely, the painful …show more content…
Nevertheless, Park doesn't fail to address some more of the reality that we face in the everyday world _ robbery. Basically, we apply every other measure to keep our personal and social life as well as our monetary fund away from strangers in the real world. And we keep ourselves up to date with the passwords while constantly changing it at regular intervals required, especially with the credit cards and social Google accounts. But still hackers and robbers will find the best way out to decrypt our passwords from us through the worst of ways; surely for their own personal benefits and profits. This existing problem is shown along with clarity over the short story that Park presents. It talks about the ways we use to make or create our passwords; change it over times and also the ways we integrate various words and numbers to fit in the proper password security from green to red and thus, get a perfect functioning password. This is a lengthy process and boring too; still needy to memorize or remember and thus is expected to pay with the safeguarding of our social and economic valuables. And in reality, it is not so. The passwords are just for the machines to input inside, process the bold characters or asterisks if it is true or not, then finally provide us with the rights to our valuables. But for any other human being, it can be a source of money or information that is valuables. No …show more content…
And these passwords that we make are the security guards of our valuables in the form of bulleted characters or asterisks. But needless to say, as Park puts it hilariously in the ending of this short story (Park); the passwords that we work upon with so much effort can amount to nothing but a set of characters for the strangers that exist like in the story. Besides, the ending is inclined to a real-world scenario where as much as a password is tried to be kept hidden, it is equally accessible to all the big guys like in the story. There is an ironical pinch in the ending of the short story as he italicizes “Passwords”, “Right now” and “Stop stalling” during the about-to-be robbery. He also adds the painful truth of the real world where the passwords are nothing but a set of characters which cannot be assured to keep our valuables safe. Hence, I think “Slide to Unlock” has a humorous and ironical ending with a texture of reality and