Adam, these are excellent points you bring up. Out of curiosity, do you have a link to that profiling Proof Of Concept someone did using, I think it was Amazon?
Or perhaps it was in a 2600 article. Damn. I can't remember. It was pretty crazy, if I remember right. Brings comments about zebras and false trails into a whole new light tho, doesn't it? We should all be digital rats (stainless-steel was taken) these days. I think I'm going to start using my own webmail client to access gmail, and slap some GPG up in there. Google does make it easy to use their services. *grin* Oy, the poor commoner tho! To think what could happen to them, left to their own devices. And how fat the smart ones will get, in a world like this. This... Watched World. I click on ads for things I'd never buy, and "go places" I'd never go, and type things I'd never type- as well as doing little dances for the cameras, just 'cause. Totally pointless, but what the hell, no? Might as well have fun with it. Plus, I'm ripped. -- http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/2600hacker_2014_2631975 On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Adam Churvis wrote: >> im not worried. not at all. if you keep your nose >> clean you have no worries for smelly bads, right :) > > I know you said that tongue-in-cheek, but we should all keep a couple of > serious things in mind: > > 1) "If you keep your nose clean" has nothing at all to do with your own > impression of "clean"; it only has to do with one person-of-power's > perception of what he himself would like to be the definition of "clean" > that everyone is forced to accept for their own damned good. > > 2) Google does not have the ultimate choice of who sees what you do; that > belongs to the court of jurisdiction, which may be decided by a political > appointee who wants to keep his job under the current administration that > appointed him or her. > > 3) Surprisingly detailed and accurate behavioral patterns can be derived > from dimensionally mining multiple stores of your personal data collected by > Google *alone* would make your head spin. This could potentially include > Google Analytics data gathered through Google by the websites that use it. > > If you think this sounds like a conspiracy theory, it isn't. Just read a > Google court order, if you can get your hands on one, and you'll see that > it's all quiet dishearteningly real. > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > President > Productivity Enhancement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:267559 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
