It wasn’t a good week to be an Alaskan vice-presidential candidate, an online publication or even a multinational science project — as all were compromised by hackers this week.

Nobody reads terms of service agreements, those legal documents new users have to click a box to say they’ve read. And the truth is, they hardly matter to anybody but the cyber-rights-now crowd and paranoid lawyers at large Web companies. But sometimes they go far beyond protecting corporate interests into la-la land.