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To: Sandy
Anyone who runs a server can capture packets and read what is being sent. Anyone.
49 posted on 11/09/2002 4:39:05 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Anyone who runs a server can capture packets and read what is being sent. Anyone.

So? You indicated that you thought the article was made-up, anti-American bull, and I was just pointing you to the facts since it was obvious that you didn't know what you were talking about.

51 posted on 11/09/2002 5:29:41 PM PST by Sandy
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
"Anyone who runs a server can capture packets and read what is being sent. Anyone."

This isn't just packet sniffing. This is database triangulation -- all of that "private" marketing data, credit data, banking, etc., all coming together in a database that gets analyzed by algorithm for patterns of behavior.

Marketers pay billions for the data on us, just to learn how to control our buying behavior... and it always works. Spending 10 million on an ad campaign that has nothing to do with your product will increase your sales more than lowering your prices.

This will not only be a privacy invader, it will be an analysis tool for designing and implementing propoganda.

83 posted on 11/09/2002 10:49:05 PM PST by Anchoragite
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