^^^True.
Unfortunately as just about every single company and government is discovering, there is no such thing as a truly secure, internet accessible, network. And that is scary.
I'm sure you read about stuxnet and Iran... fact is a lot of traditional infrastructure equipment is now monitored and maintained remotely. As such it's also very vulnerable. We're not talking about someone finding out your financial history or grabbing your credit card information either... rather things like affecting dam floodgates, sewer, water and gas pipelines, basically the power infrastructure. To me this is truly scary.
The only way to keep data safe is to keep it physically isolated. Unfortunately that runs completely counter to to the whole premise of inter-connectivity and resultant productivity, and even then you run into human element problem.
Precluding a global market crash in combination with a major natural disaster, I don't see any other way that technology/privacy/surveillance can progress unfortunately.
