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How to Disappear Completely (From the Internet)
Popular Mechanics via Instapundit ^
| January 10, 2012
| John Herrman
Posted on 01/12/2012 7:00:11 PM PST by w4women
If you’ve ever used the Internet, you have an online identity. Maybe it’s slight: a Hotmail account here, a comment on a news story there. Or maybe you’ve been more prolific, leaving a trail of usernames, accounts, messages, and profiles across the digital landscape. In any case, an active internet user owes it to himself to do a bit of self-Googling. What you’ll find will be both enlightening and humbling—even worrying.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: facebook; internet; internetanonymity; internetinvisibility; invisible
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To: w4women
Any one know if you can really get "off the grid"?Sure. Step #1 ... post a thread on FR about it. 
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:07:15 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: expat1000
OK, I did not read the sidebar. The IE logo fooled me.
Sorry.
Have been a Firefox user from almost the first release.
Have used a lot of plug-ins. Currently really like “Better Privacy”.
Have used Linux since around 1994. First version was a UMSDOS version of Slackware.
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:08:03 PM PST
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: Texas Fossil
To: phockthis
I used it for a while and found it not that good.
Have been using www.scroogle.org lately. It is OK.
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:15:33 PM PST
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:31:35 PM PST
by
shove_it
(just undo it)
To: Texas Fossil
The IP masking does work.
I only played with it for a few minutes, but there doesn’t seem to be much lag from using the proxy servers either.
I would not put too much faith in this though. I somehow doubt that no records are kept anywhere as to the originating IP.
To: expat1000
Yes, I agree. The Feds would never allow that.
My local ISP just forced us to go through google for e-mail. Using the existing e-mail address, but through a gmail alias.
Not happy with that change. Called and told them. I know their techies, good guys. I know the reason they changed, administration cost and cost of the required record keeping. No pay off. It is a small but good, local coop telephone system. Very innovative and they give good service to some remote areas.
I am looking for another e-mail agent, but am not liking the choices I have found so far.
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:56:12 PM PST
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:10:28 PM PST
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: w4women
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:31:34 PM PST
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: RobinOfKingston
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:58:46 PM PST
by
RobinOfKingston
(The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
To: w4women
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:30:40 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Candidate Barack Obama was never vetted. America is his employer, his job review sucks. End of story)
To: w4women
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posted on
01/13/2012 1:32:53 AM PST
by
ebshumidors
( Marksmanship and YOUR heritage http://www.appleseedinfo.org)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; stylin_geek; ...
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posted on
01/13/2012 4:31:34 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; stylin_geek; ...
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posted on
01/13/2012 4:32:24 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Texas Fossil
To: w4women
Don’t know if anyone can get totally clean - but with Janet and her totalitarian goons looking for political enemies - it’ll soon become important. Everyone who’s young needs to bookmark this page.
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posted on
01/13/2012 7:15:48 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
To: jiggyboy
I have a pretty uncommon name. Spokeo.com can’t decide if I’m black or white, male or female, 20 or 40, make $35k or $165k, or what my sign is. Not impressed.
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posted on
01/13/2012 7:49:49 AM PST
by
BuckeyeTexan
(Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
To: w4women; ShadowAce; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dayglored; SunkenCiv
To: martin_fierro
Those two bushes on the right look out of place.....
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
01/13/2012 1:11:09 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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