Posted on 09/22/2004 10:04:14 AM PDT by Graybeard58
There is no cause for paranoia, but most IT security professionals will agree, that using the internet has serious security and privacy deficits.
# If your anonymizer doesn´t block or spoof cookies and you have visited a specific website before without an anonymizer, this site may still be able to identify you.
# Companies offering anonymizing services are promising not to disclose their log files to anyone. But can you really trust them? Law enforcing agencies do have access to these logs, and in these days of terrorist threat it would be quite unrealistic to assume that secret service agencies would confine themselves from using this excellent surveillance instrument.
# Your employer will definitely notice that you are using anonymizing services, he might even see the websites you are visiting embedded in the URL sent
(Excerpt) Read more at ipinfo.info ...
It offers a lot of links for freebies.
Beware all who are surfing from their cubicles...Big Brother is watching you.
How much privacy do we have? Very little it seems.There is even a web site where you can type in your address and it will tell you to whom and how much you and your neighbors have contributed to political parties.
If you don't want to give out your address, no problem, just type in your zip code.:
http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php
Even if you use an off-shore anonymizer, assume that the
NSA is logging all the cross-pond traffic to such sites,
and can easily reconstruct who posted what when.
However, keeping the DNC from "outing" you on FR is
easily accomplished with far less effort (assuming it's
even worth worrying about).
Wish we could use the NSA to go after spammers...
Super. Now some left wing kook can look everyone up. It may not be up to date. I did not see myself. And I did give to Bush.
Just grab a wireless laptop and find an open network.
Use a PCMCIA wireless card as opposed to built in wireless capability to avoid having your MAC address tracked to your purchase of the laptop if you're extra paranoid.
It only includes donors who have given over $200.
You know....not one of the "Fundraising Checking Sites" lists my contributions this last year.
interesting
keeping the DNC from "outing" you on FR
From my experience as an Army Brat, I just assume that anyone involved in protecting America is on my side. Any American that has served or been overseas and has seen how great we have it here can't help but be on our side.
Except of course, the Rachel Corrie types (LOL I'm still laughing about her). Squashed like a bug on the windshield of life!
I could care less if the NSA is logging me (Log away Dudes!).
The DNC however, is another story. I hope the intelligence services (once they rebuild after the Clinton era) pay more attention to keeping track of all the Anti-American DNC operatives in the intelligence and military services.
Anyone know how BuckHead's identity got discovered? I don't buy the rumor that he left enough clues in his fr postings to figure it out. What happened? Anyone, Bueller, anyone?
They have far, far, more important things to do.
Been wondering about that myself.
They are checking, but it is not clear how much they are finding out. Usually, you connect to an overseas anonymizer through SSH tunneling.
I have heard that if you set up a nym on a nymserver, you will get a single 'spam' email from the NSA.
Users of JBN or QS would be a lot more difficult, but that's one-way.
Scythian here. We already have the technology to watch you and its not all hosted via ground devices. The staggering truth is that the common man has no understanding of what millions of instructions per second is truly capable of nor should you assume that you know all there is to know when it comes to technology, non-silicon technology might suprise you. Your worried about cookies identifying you? Come on, I can't tell you how hard the guys back in the bunker laugh when they read stuff like that, I'm talking mill through the nose laughter. However, that being said, we take great pleasure in lurking on the FreeRepublic.
bump for later
>> assume that the NSA is logging all the cross-pond traffic
> They are checking, but it is not clear how much they are finding out.
Well, for someone using an off-shore anon server for
posting to discussion sites, I'm sure it's easy to
correlate time stamps and message sizes. And when you
know the probable cleartext, it makes it a lot easier
to crack the encrypted traffic containing it.
None of which has much of anything to do with FR,
since posts of possible national security interest
are essentially unheard of here (other than the odd
moonbat threats, which generally get taken down fast).
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