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Yahoo is spying on you
WND ^ | 12/21/09 | Michael Carl

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: internet; yahoo
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To: New Yawk Minute

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.


61 posted on 12/21/2009 11:23:38 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: mojitojoe

Just keep on believing.


62 posted on 12/21/2009 11:27:54 PM PST by New Yawk Minute
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To: hope

[[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?


63 posted on 12/21/2009 11:29:53 PM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: hope

They search for certain key words and then keep tabs on you.


64 posted on 12/21/2009 11:31:45 PM PST by rbosque (11 year Freeper! The real reason the left wants to disarm us is becoming clearer.)
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To: CottShop
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?

This goes beyond Zero. The institution runs worldwide and is largely independent of elected officials.

65 posted on 12/21/2009 11:32:37 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Richard Kimball

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?


66 posted on 12/21/2009 11:38:14 PM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: CottShop

Yeah, but they always give the “government is evil” stories a hiatus when a Rat’s in office.


67 posted on 12/21/2009 11:44:49 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: New Yawk Minute
"I dont care what it says..your isp can still be traced. Make a few threats about a public figure and see how fast you are found."

Not if it's encrypted with strong encryption, chained and mixed through several activist servers. The very few offices that can decrypt and trace such messages cannot afford the computer time for anything less than national security efforts. Granted, though, such messages take more time to queue through (days), but many more people use such services than most would imagine.


68 posted on 12/21/2009 11:54:12 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: Will88

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.


69 posted on 12/21/2009 11:59:19 PM PST by Melian ("Here's the moral of the story: Catholic witness has a cost." ~Archbishop Charles Chaput)
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To: mojitojoe

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.


70 posted on 12/22/2009 12:07:24 AM PST by Nahanni
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To: sonofstrangelove; All

I think so.....in fact I think Google is even more invasive in that they record all “searches” via IP address.....


71 posted on 12/22/2009 12:11:28 AM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: familyop

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.


72 posted on 12/22/2009 12:11:41 AM PST by Nahanni
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To: Halgr

Google records and keeps your searches indefinetly while Yahoo only keeps it for thirty days.


73 posted on 12/22/2009 12:17:56 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: Halgr

If a law enforcement agency wants to see your searches, they need a warrant to see those files.


74 posted on 12/22/2009 12:22:07 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: Nahanni

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.

http://www.openbsd.org/

http://www.netbsd.org/

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.


75 posted on 12/22/2009 12:38:53 AM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: hope

The gov’t is going to REAL bored with my email.


76 posted on 12/22/2009 1:54:08 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Deja moo: The feeling you've heard this bull before)
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To: hope

The posted topic was about search engines, so here’s a contribution.

http://www.scroogle.org/

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.


77 posted on 12/22/2009 1:57:24 AM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: hope

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.


78 posted on 12/22/2009 2:13:24 AM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: hope

Acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. What happen to Echelon for snooping??.


79 posted on 12/22/2009 2:20:10 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: familyop

bookmark


80 posted on 12/22/2009 2:22:56 AM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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