Posted on 12/21/2009 9:07:14 PM PST by hope
Yahoo.com is allegedly spying on its customers and acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
According to Wired.com, Yahoo also charges the agencies for the information. That means U.S. citizens' tax dollars are being used by federal agencies to pay for information gathered in Yahoo's spying.
A Yahoo customer who asked not to be identified became suspicious of Yahoo's operations when the image below appeared on his screen while downloading his e-mail.
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what isp they issued
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They didn’t issue me any IP. It’s different all the time and shared with thousands of others. Right now it says I’m using Godaddy but the problem is, that’s not who I use.
Plus some people don’t even pay for an internet server. They just log on with whatever wireless is nearby.
Just keep on believing.
[[That means U.S. citizens’ tax dollars are being used by federal agencies to pay for information gathered in Yahoo’s spying.]]
Golly- I wonder, if htis is true, when the mainstream media will get around to pulling hteir hair out by the roots as they scream about Obama invading citizen’s privacy? I’m bettign it will be.... never?
They search for certain key words and then keep tabs on you.
This goes beyond Zero. The institution runs worldwide and is largely independent of elected officials.
the only reason i mentioned ozero was because the mainstream media threw a veritible hizzy fit when they found out President Bush was ‘spying’ on TERRORISTS in this country- but let our current government fund Yahoo to spy on US, and the maisntream media goes silent?
Yeah, but they always give the “government is evil” stories a hiatus when a Rat’s in office.
There is an organization that uses grant funds to catalog every website page, every day. Many of the links stay live too. For example, you can go and look at the Apple website from this date twelve years ago and see exactly what it looked like. Every shred of info on every page is being cataloged and saved.
I have run into smartasses like you before, honey.
Ones that were alot smarter then you-they actually hacked into servers all over the world in order to mask their identity.
Guess what, honey?
They are sitting in a penitentiary doing 5-10 years for hacking and internet stalking. I know, I helped put them there.
BTW-those proxy/anonymous browsing services know your IP address. All one has to do is get a warrant and they will cough up all your info to the court. The court will then get a warrant to give to your ISP and they will cough up your name, address and shoe size. If you use a cell phone they can track you like a Caribou, too.
Now, I suppose you could rent one of those mini offices, get a cheapo internet connection from a local ISP and then hook a computer up that you could access by remote then go running around and try to hide your identity that way but it won’t work for more then a couple of uses. Especially if the feds are looking for you.
I think so.....in fact I think Google is even more invasive in that they record all “searches” via IP address.....
PS...
Sure, you can go the encryption route sand it will take them a bit longer to find you.
In the end they will make sure you will have much longer to sit in prison to think about all the good times you had.
Google records and keeps your searches indefinetly while Yahoo only keeps it for thirty days.
If a law enforcement agency wants to see your searches, they need a warrant to see those files.
Prison for encrypting messages? That’s a funny comment. Use of strong encryption is legal, as long as you don’t export the software for it to certain other countries. Doing it with Windoze probably wouldn’t be a good idea, though (see keyloggers, for one).
Properly informed use of the technologies that I mentioned will keep others from tracing or encrypting messages. But if, say, defense had a reason to be interested enough, that would be different.
Information on encryption and cracking can be found in the discussion archives related to the following sites, but some prerequisite learning time would be recommended.
A few other sites chronicle research in cryptography and/or information security in general.
But let’s say that all that you’re after is keeping visited sites from logging your IP. Learning to use a single proxy built for that purpose will do it, if no criminal or libellous activity is involved (subpoenas sometimes required). Using, say, ten of them that do strong encryption while also doing mixing and chaining...now that’s a whole different game. Yes, a few of the more educated terrorists have probably used them (thanks to our corporations and universities for educating and hiring them), but so have many others.
The gov’t is going to REAL bored with my email.
The posted topic was about search engines, so here’s a contribution.
Follow the “scraper” link.
If you don’t want your ISP to see your search keywords, follow the “no snooping” link on the “scraper” page.
http://www.ixquick.com/
Go to your settings and enable Secure Socket Layer for privacy between your machine and the search engine (but no privacy between your machine and the sites you access after that, unless you use a loyal anonymous proxy service with SSL). ...might have to turn cookies on momentarily in order to enable Secure Socket Layer.
On the controversy regarding e-mail services, one way to have a little privacy is to use an e-mail service operated by a stubborn privacy activist. A way to assure much privacy for e-mail would be to use an out-of-country e-mail service and strong encryption for messages (check laws without listening to television fiends).
...depends on how much privacy you want and how much you want to bother with it. The best way to have your privacy respected is to recruit many others to let Congress know about it for as long as it takes. Tougher privacy laws wouldn’t be the end all, be all, but those would help.
Acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. What happen to Echelon for snooping??.
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