There's a problem with this
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Tim+Ward
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Now that Google will find anything you want so easily, isn't there a danger that people will stop putting links to useful and interesting sites on their pages?
I don't need to tell people, via a link, about some wonderful site I've found if they can find it for themselves quicker and easier using Google. So I might not bother to maintain my collections of useful links, and Google will lose its information source. A victim of its own success.
What happens then?
How to abuse Google
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AftanGustur
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· Score: 5, Informative
Wrong about email
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Karellen
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· Score: 5, Informative
He's wrong about one thing. Email does have links. It has links indicating who it came from and who it went to. Even without the content, that sort of information, about who is talking to whom, and in what patterns, can be really informative to those who know what they're looking for.
If you include the content, it's a goldmine.
URLs embedded in email would make it better again
Aside from that though, great article.
-- Why doesn't the gene pool have a life guard?
Wrong panopticon
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dallen
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Doctorow's point, I believe, is that we have a luxury of choices for searching information, but those who want to wiretap us do not have the luxury of infinite time and infinitely improved ways to find the information they want.
If they could only track us via the public internet, I would probably agree.
I would say we don't know what sort of technology they ultimately have for searching our data; until we knew that, we should not assume anything such as he has, that they're not able to keep up with the flood of data.
Remember that they're not only recording elements of email, phone, and other communications; but they are also tracking who is sending and receiving it; and those who are under "wiretap" are nearly perfectly trackable as long as they can associate an identity to an IP to a person. That is the Panopticon, the prison with ideal survailance; mapping a person to their communication and selectively watching those who bear suspicion.
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Now that Google will find anything you want so easily, isn't there a danger that people will stop putting links to useful and interesting sites on their pages?
I don't need to tell people, via a link, about some wonderful site I've found if they can find it for themselves quicker and easier using Google. So I might not bother to maintain my collections of useful links, and Google will lose its information source. A victim of its own success.
What happens then?
Actually Google's system can, and is, beeing abused..
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
Undocumented Google Commands
Google Time Bombs
Google Science-Fiction
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
He's wrong about one thing. Email does have links. It has links indicating who it came from and who it went to. Even without the content, that sort of information, about who is talking to whom, and in what patterns, can be really informative to those who know what they're looking for.
If you include the content, it's a goldmine.
URLs embedded in email would make it better again
Aside from that though, great article.
Why doesn't the gene pool have a life guard?
Doctorow's point, I believe, is that we have a luxury of choices for searching information, but those who want to wiretap us do not have the luxury of infinite time and infinitely improved ways to find the information they want.
If they could only track us via the public internet, I would probably agree.
I would say we don't know what sort of technology they ultimately have for searching our data; until we knew that, we should not assume anything such as he has, that they're not able to keep up with the flood of data.
Remember that they're not only recording elements of email, phone, and other communications; but they are also tracking who is sending and receiving it; and those who are under "wiretap" are nearly perfectly trackable as long as they can associate an identity to an IP to a person. That is the Panopticon, the prison with ideal survailance; mapping a person to their communication and selectively watching those who bear suspicion.
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