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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is worried about his privacy. You may want to re-read that sentence to be sure it didn’t say “isn’t worried.” It would certainly make a lot more sense if the face of Facebook said he wasn’t concerned about privacy, but just the opposite is happening.

It’s often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for a great many people, the permanent memory bank of the Web increasingly means there are no second chances — no opportunities to escape a scarlet letter in your digital past. Now the worst thing you’ve done is often the first thing everyone knows about you.

Force10 Networks has finally filed to go public after blabbing about it for years. Well, this is a juiced-up Force10. Last year, two competing 10-year-old network equipment makers, Force10 and Turin Networks, decided they needed to combine in order to persuade fussier public-market investors to buy into an eventual offering. That merger, billed at the time as a rare 50-50 deal, brought together two companies that had raised some $600 million in venture backing combined from at least 25 investors.