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If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy (theatlantic.com)
Muad'Dave writes: Here's an interesting article at The Atlantic about the prevalence of surveillance and the recent uptick in 'deja-vu' moments where devices seemingly hear your conversations and then attempt to market to you. From the article: "One night the previous summer, I’d driven to meet a friend at an art gallery in Hollywood, my first visit to a gallery in years. The next morning, in my inbox, several spam e-mails urged me to invest in art. That was an easy one to figure out: I’d typed the name of the gallery into Google Maps. Another simple one to trace was the stream of invitations to drug and alcohol rehab centers that I’d been getting ever since I’d consulted an online calendar of Los Angeles–area Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Since membership in AA is supposed to be confidential, these emails irked me. Their presumptuous, heart-to-heart tone bugged me too. Was I tired of my misery and hopelessness? Hadn’t I caused my loved ones enough pain? Some of these disconcerting prompts were harder to explain. For example, the appearance on my Facebook page, under the heading “People You May Know,” of a California musician whom I’d bumped into six or seven times at AA meetings in a private home. In accordance with AA custom, he had never told me his last name nor inquired about mine. And as far as I knew, we had just one friend in common, a notably solitary older novelist who avoided computers altogether. I did some research in an online technology forum and learned that by entering my number into his smartphone’s address book (compiling phone lists to use in times of trouble is an AA ritual), the musician had probably triggered the program that placed his full name and photo on my page."
In every example given, initial worst assumptions give way to mundane explanations. What exactly is there to be worried about?
Either way the men with the white coats are coming after you... or maybe the men with the funny glasses with an extra band on one side.
Those who don't learn from history...
Another simple one to trace was the stream of invitations to drug and alcohol rehab centers that I’d been getting ever since I’d consulted an online calendar of Los Angeles–area Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Since membership in AA is supposed to be confidential, these emails irked me.
Of course the author just told the readership of The Atlantic... and by extension many others.
On a serious note, I wonder what online calendar it was? Anyway, the AA meetings are "secret." Not so much searches.
Dark Reflection
The basic rules:
1) Do not use "free" services that require you to identify yourself in some way. This includes most any service from Google, Facebook, etc.
2) Do not use "free" apps on your smart phone. It is next to impossible to prevent an app on your smartphone from providing ID information to outside entities.
3) Basically - learn the first rule of life - there is no such thing as a free lunch. If someone is giving you something for free, then they are taking something from you without telling you - in our modern era, that is almost always your identity in some way shape or form.
You want privacy? Don't use any of the convenience of today's world.
No smartphone, no facebook, no google, no nothing. Go live in some cabin in the woods without electricity. Only for some a-hole with a drone to come spy on you.
If you leave your mobile's Wi-Fi enabled whilst your out and about, there are HW/SW packages that gather everything about you and your device they are able to gather such as IMEI, phone number, MAC address to profile you across other properties the owner might possess. They buy and sell lists with this info to identify and analyse you to "be able to better serve you".
About a year ago, I read a bit about an executive that works for a company that gathers the aforementioned telemetry as well as other info. He basically said that the technology to actually almost spot-on identify anyone almost in real time is almost here. He recommends paying cash for things that could come back to haunt you later: the drink, cigarettes, a night at the pub with mates, a habit of large triple-meat pizzas weekly, you get the point. Using your debit or credit card enables them to track you because these companies buy purchasing habits.
Ditto becoming "friends" with firms online. They couldn't give a monkey's toss about whether you like something; they want to follow you on Facebook to see who your mates are, investigate your peccadilloes, whatever. Insurance companies are already involved with this and are penalising folk already for being "risky". If your friends list is a cast of other guys and girls who like the drink, holiday in risky areas, smoke fags or the other stuff, you are being catalogued for a price increase.
I've taken to using cash, never having my mobile's Wi-Fi on when I'm not at home, never paying with a debit card for the drink, fags, triple curries down the pub, you name it.
Google is not in e-mail advertising business. If you got any ads from maps visit, they would be the usual ones in your search results or banners on 3rd party sites (which do not get access to your e-mail or other identity info). Either you shared your e-mail in some other context related to the event, or your browser and/or mobile device are infected by keylogging/location logging malware.
You should get even more paranoid about your privacy!
Ah yes, an article to ease our worries and make us OK with being spied on. No, it's no biggie, just get used to it, folks. You're just "paranoid". See, we label and demean ANYONE who dare go against us. So, you're either OK with what we do, or you're "paranoid" or "racist" or "neocon" or "terrorist" or...
Somehow, Facebook knows that I like boobs, and it only shows me dating ads that feature busty women, instead of women with big butts. But lately, it's been serving me ads for "mature singles". I'm not into that!
just stupid.
Rockwell was right!!!!!!
Many of us have been warning about that trend for decades, to be ignored by the vast majority who do not mind a world with not a single shred of privacy. "What do you have to hide?" they ask.
Those of us who don't want to live in that world sadly have little choice. It's increasingly hard to avoid it, try as you might. You can wall yourself off, refuse to use the privacy-invading tech that everyone else favors, but at the cost of being increasingly cut off from mainstream society and even your own friends who no longer use any non-corporatized online communication. "Why use email when there's Facebook? Dude, get with the times! Nobody's on email man!"
People appear to hate the idea of the original internet: open standards with communications that were not monitized or centrally controlled. They much prefer that it be replaced with proprietary services, closed non-interacting protocols, and corporate-censored for-profit services that monitize everything they do. Thereby, the rest of us are forced to watch the internet we knew and loved be dragged in a direction we hate to see. It feels like destroying everything that made it great. In fact, destroying the very things that allowed it to become as world-changing as it did.
And I say that as somebody who was not young when it was arpanet and Vaxen. Rips out my heart to see what's happened to the place since then. Improvement, good. Development without wisdom, not so much.
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. But in this case, the author kinda is paranoid. He could use a course on web browsers and email.
The next morning, in my inbox, several spam e-mails urged me to invest in art. That was an easy one to figure out: I’d typed the name of the gallery into Google Maps.
It sounds like the author is alleging that Google gave his email address and marketing information to spammers. Is that true? Considering I have a gmail account that receives no spam at all, I think a more believable explanation is that he dropped his business card into a box somewhere, or signed-up on a list. In reality, 100% of my spam comes to the email address I have registered to my domain. My personal email gets nothing because I don't give it out.
Some people receive almost no spam. Other people get a 200:1 ratio of spam to real emails. Having done tech support, I can tell you by talking to someone for 5 minutes how much spam they get. Do they click on ads? Do they sign-up for stuff and give out their email? Do they play the lottery? Then they are in the high spam category. I bet a reporter is one of those people who gives out his contact information to absolutely everyone.
Another simple one to trace was the stream of invitations to drug and alcohol rehab centers that I’d been getting ever since I’d consulted an online calendar of Los Angeles–area Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Since membership in AA is supposed to be confidential, these emails irked me.
Unless he created a dedicated email address specifically for the AA membership, he has no evidence of this. Again, more likely, he enaged in networking.
I don't even want to consider his example where his bluetooth somethingorother was transcribing his words and turning that into spam. That one is technically possible, but we just aren't there... yet.
With those complaints registered, many of the anecdotes in the story do make sense. A Google search triggered targeted ads on YouTube. Well yeah, Google owns both sites. This is one of the reasons people feared Google Plus: it was just *too* well integrated. I am just surprised that this is news to people at all. What do you think is in that 35 page license you clicked "accept" to in order to play that free Facebook game? Why do you think that flashlight app needs access to your contact list and the internet?
With GPS, facial recognition, voice prints. Everything that the US/UK gov and mil used to have in the 1970's~90's is now at a consumer level. :)
The "number into his smartphone’s address book" is all part of the free social media experience.
The "William Binney, a government whistle-blower and former top NSA cryptologist, the answer was simple: almost everything, today, tomorrow, and for decades to come." should be clear to most readers.
The "Its employees dealt with us in an upbeat, tightly scripted manner that appeared to stem from their awareness of several cameras angled toward the service counter." is just the expanded 'chat down' program that all tourists and travellers now face
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
if you use closed source software then there is no way of knowing what your handheld computer is actually doing without going to extreme measures.
will they ever learn? nope.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
No, you're just an annoying asshat.
To "Open SORES" their code to others stealing it calling it theirs which goes on by the truckload. It's disgusting.
Wait, he has a Facebook page and is paranoid about PRIVACY??? What alternate dimension is this?
That's like keeping your front door wide-open and putting a sign in your yard that reads 'Steal my shit' then getting mad when you're robbed.
It does not require esoteric knowledge to prevent some of the "coincidences" the article discusses. Block ads, block third-party cookies, refuse unnecessary scripts... those actions will actually prevent some of this from happening and the authour is negligent to not mention them.
Going to visit the NSA data center, in contrast, accomplishes jackshit.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
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1. Spammers DID have his email address
2. Whether Google Maps search gave them it? Unlikely. It will be his GPS location and his wifi sniff trace, or someones email address book.
His phone will have 5-10 apps on it that grab his location via GPS when available or via Wifi when not. They also sniff devices around them by Wifi. Location sniffing is a big privacy problem.
When people sign up to Facebook, Linkedin etc. they permit access to their address book for Gmail. FB and Linkedin read the email address list which includes automatically collected email address of people he's dealt with. If his AA meeting organizer had emailed both of them separately, then he is flagged as one step away. While he may not know this other man at the AA meeting, the organizer will, and people don't understand that when they permit these third party social sites to access their email, they have lost all their privacy. These sites sell co-traveller information, including to General Alexanders stasibase.
There are so many ways that private data is extracted from people. I was once appalled that an app I installed on an Android tablet had the email address associated with that tablet. Now I don't use Google.
Really, the problem is the weak privacy regulation, unread EULAs, some really nasty data grabbers (and yes Mr Google Fanbois, Google is one of the worst), and cross linkage. So while he would never give out the association between him and other AA meeting members, his organizer might well have signed up (even earlier) to one of these social sites, and never realized its checking the address book for new names and selling it on.
Don't want to have your information collected, don't use Facebook. I mean seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Also, don't let Google or anyone else store a permanent cookie on you, don't stay logged in, don't keep a personal account on the search engine you use. For starters. Also don't use a web-based E-Mail service like gmail and encrypt all your E-mails fanatically. At this point the number of people willing to talk to you will be pretty small, which will make it much easier to not show up in social networks.
For bonus points, pull the battery out of your phone when you're not using it.
Even after all that, you probably won't be a freaking ghost, but at least you'll be making the few guys who know about you work for it.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
We have already been far more than chipped by the nano chips in chemtrails. That is what 'morgellons' is. Morgellons has been proven in study, it is not just on patient's skin, those with the fibers coming out of their skin, their bodies are rejecting the fibers. The chemtrail nano chips self assemble in to fiber optics inside of us./p>
Did you mean Midochlorians?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Except maybe people still using Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. I use Gmail exclusively and the only time I see spam is when I check the spam folder for emails accidentally getting put in there.
I clicked on the link, and AdBlock warned me the site uses targeted ads. LOL. Or maybe not LOL.
We could all benefit from a slick-implemented AI "noise" bot.
It runs plausible searches and emails from your Google account: AA meetings, cancer support, communist party meetings, tea party movement meetings, etc.
Done at a reasonable human-speed rate to make it believable to Google.
I don't code, but if someone wants to do this right (open source) I pledge $50 for the kickstarter right now.
What could possibly go wrong?
adamperry@gmail
Huh, it turns out the article is right. Someone typed the word "AdBlock" and suddenly they are spammed with some ad about a "hosts file engine". That is creepy.
You are paranoid about security and have a Facebook account? You bring shame to Paranoid schizophrenics everywhere. Please join your local chapter of technologically illiterate anonymous.
On a more serious note. I know people who are convinced that Navy seals sit in the trees outside their house. You are halfway there. Get help before it is too late.
Go ahead and blame all your problems on 0.2% of the world population... while the real problem fucks you in the ass with a swastika. Or a cross. Or a curved sword. Or a bill that you'll only get to read after it is signed into law. Or a secret warrant. Or a USB drive containing your private conversations that were recorded by the world's largest domestic spying operation.
My first run-in with online privacy happened in the late 1990's when a persistent troll found personal info on me and broadcast it all over discussion boards in an attempt to embarrass me into silence.
I realized after the "breach" it's easy to leave inadvertent clues. Somebody with enough patience and persistence can put these clues together to dig around in search engines for personal info and your online trail.
And there are plenty of freaks out there who make the Interwebs their sadism engine. It's their only "power" in life.
I'm much more careful about "crossing topics" now. For example, if I'm on a board about pets, I don't talk about IT and vice versa. But, that's probably still not enough as one tends have certain phrasing patterns that leave sufficient clues for "statistical linking". Most trolls probably don't go that far or are not smart enough, but you never know. They may have a script-buddy to barter for zombie PC time or something.
Table-ized A.I.
So surprising to see APK here...
That's like keeping your front door wide-open and putting a sign in your yard that reads 'Steal my shit' then getting mad when you're robbed.
No it's not. The sign provides consent.
Dr. Alice P. Kripen? Whether for the APK acronym come hence?
A dear friend of mine entered all his personal information into a phishing job ad, was invited to flyout to interview, was picked up at the airport and driven to the location where he was murdered. His bank accounts were emptied and credit cards opened in his name. The assailant was eventually caught and had armloads of other people's information he was targeting.
Who? Us? Over here!?! Stop watching us! Hello, who are you and why are you looking at me? Stop it! Stop listening, wait, who are those guys? Will you all just stop it? STOOOOP! http://i.imgur.com/697eU.gif
Meanwhile...
No seriously though, you should not trust people who are monitoring you without your consent, but you should trust that whoever has been is no longer doing so. :) There there, see I know you could do it. Who's a good employee? *rasberries* hahaha You're a good employee. puts headset down
Just be like everyone else, join a team, join a group of people. Then those who monitor you can know that you are clearly part of that team and monitor you as a part of the whole. Never stand out, just stay under the radar, avoid all attention, and do your job. Nope, nooooo! Nooooo! Stop it! Good. Who are we? We don't exist. There's no one watching you, you're being crazy. Shhhhhhh get back to work. Will you just get back to work?
Smile
*clicks "Next Misbehaving Worker"* Hey there. We're not watching you.
Meanwhile...
Oh look, somebody just searched for "pitcher of water", display pitcher ads.
Bob you won't believe how amazing these online ads have become. I wrote down "picture of water" and it immediately knew I got no water pitchers in my house.
Meanwhile...
Hey Jeff, check this out. The terrorist muslim woman we've been monitoring has naked pics on her phone. Hahaha, nice tits, "Hey Steve! Check out the tits on the muslim girl!" "Oh wow, I'm gonna get some coffee." *rolls eyes*
Meanwhile...
According to the algorithm people care most about Hillary this election season. Next most popular trend is lupus. We should put that on the ads, "Hillary Clinton will fight lupus!"
Meanwhile back on earth...
Can I have some priva... pri ... p ... *sigh*...
This guy's reasonably hyper-connected with his accounts and devices that it's no surprise some algorithms on the internets spits shit back at him. Did the Netflix suggestions back in the day also make him shit his britches?
I sandbox all the accounts. Got facebook to do a page and promote my work. Sandboxed it by having an email account that ONLY goes out for that FB account. Twitter, Imgur, Reddit, bank, tablet, phone, ALL of them, individual email accounts. The bank, paypal, ebay, and a few others get dumped and new accounts every few months. The reason for this is simple, ALL of the financial ones I found were selling "anonymous" data for marketing. I cannot stop that nor can I live in this world without those services, so I just go on the mailserver and start fresh every few months.
Generic skype numbers for phones.
Cache flushing, vpns, etc etc..
And I put out dummy data about me as well. Just to help obfuscate reality a bit more than hiding the data.
Is this easy? Nope, it's a fucking pain in the ass. But I'm far less concerned about it and and accept the hour or so extra I spend every week with passwords and shit most other people don't. In the end, only time will prove if I'm better off than people being flooded with the sea of corp. shit. I hope it's not all in vain.
See subject: Her initials & mine are purely coincidental but the net-effect is the same - curing online cancer per Doc Searls interview & his conclusions/findings which concur with mine above on that very note http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
APK
P.S.=> I am Legend (lol)... apk
Dont use a smart phone, don't use google products, and dont use social media.
I guess that's what passes for "off the grid" these days. Not hard.
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Whenever I read one of these articles about how tiny fragments of information are gathered and assembled into a personal profile I'm struck by how much is based on so little. They make a lot of assumptions about the veracity of these little details that they collect. Thins makes me wonder if active and deliberated injection of miss information could serve as an effective defense mechanism.
If course, you'd have to be sure that the false picture you paint is a favorable one. And that the resulting ad targeting will come in a fairly innocuous form. You are going to get blasted with ads regardless of what you do.. Do you want them to be relevant (attention getting, so you are constantly telling yourself, "No, no, no") or completely irrelevant to you (more annoying, but soon more easily ignored).
Perhaps a browser plugin could be developed that does occasional random searches in the background. Or maybe something that clicks on random ads in a hidden browser session (just make sure you have damn good sandboxing, given the propensity for drive-by browser exploits to lurk behind ad-bait.) Similar things could be done with random email and text messages between users of a misinfo application. I've often thought it would be fun to make a browser plugin that connects to a peer-to-peer network and swaps tracking cookies with other browsers. You'd have to make sure to exchange only cookies from domains know to be associated with tracking and advertising, and not anything that may have login of other confidential data. This would have to be done carefully; but I think it could be done.
The effects would be hilarious. When you op-out of tracking you merely deny them some of the data (and maybe flag yourself as a different kind of datapoint...). But if you intentionally poison the well in a way that is difficult to distinguish from legitimate data then you increase expenses while significantly decreasing value of the whole system, as well as sow doubt one whatever remains after their attempts to filter out interference.
Limiting your exposure by trying to limit what information can be learned about you will only go so far. You will never eliminate all of it. After you reduce it by 95% there is still a hellofalot that can be gleaned from the remaining 5%. But if that 5% can't be disentangled from 95% bogus information then it would be a real thorn-in-the-side of those trying to build consumer profiles of every member of the population. I think that this is the new frontier in privacy protection. Get a few Cryptonomicon-minded people thinking about this and imagine what they could come up with.
(Posted as AC for obvious reasons.)
The only types of spam, annoying ads, telemarketers, Facebook connections, LinkedIn invites and "you may also like" recommendations I ever receive are for porn. I wonder why?
Don't fear the government who is focusing on foreign threats. Fear the US companies who are violating your privacy every single day.
First mistake: being anywhere near Hollywood. Get out while you can.
Other than that, if agree w the headline.
Go ahead and blame all your problems on 0.2% of the world population... while the real problem fucks you in the ass with a swastika. Or a cross. Or a curved sword. Or a bill that you'll only get to read after it is signed into law. Or a secret warrant. Or a USB drive containing your private conversations that were recorded by the world's largest domestic spying operation.
Nah.
Accidentlally 18+ trillion in debt?
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Whodunnit?
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/156146/yellen-at-the-fed
http://forward.com/opinion/185284/janet-yellen-brings-jewish-side-to-fed-again/
TPP? Who wants it?
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman
Media? Who slithered into owning basically all of it?
http://www.marwenmedia.com/articles_images/MelGibson.html
Read more learn more...
http://www.zerohedge.com/category/tags/otc-derivatives
http://investmentwatchblog.com/90-of-700-trillion-derivatives-market-contracts-held-by-jpmorgan-goldman-sachs-bofa-citigroup-and-wells-fargo/
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/02/16/who-owns-bank-of-america.aspx
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/02/20/who-owns-wells-fargo.aspx
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/02/19/who-owns-jpmorgan-chase.aspx
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/02/22/who-owns-goldman-sachs.aspx
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/02/21/who-owns-citigroup.aspx
http://ftmdaily.com/preparing-for-the-collapse-of-the-petrodollar-system/
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_VqX6J93k
http://www.bis.org/statistics/derstats.htm
blame all your problems on
So "blame all" you say.. oh darn it... another appeal to emotion. gtfo. How about who fucked it up? Is it one person or a group? Who are they? Are they actual people or just some -isms? Oh, it's Judaism. A cult of laws that rejects Christ impiously. Judaism isn't a race, it is a cult of law.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11866467/New-York-judge-rules-that-Jewish-chicken-whirling-ritual-can-continue.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzs-09Of99I
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v21/v21n2p34_sheehan.html
while the real problem fucks you in the ass with a swastika. Or a cross. Or a curved sword.
No. Haven't seen any swastikas doing anything in over half a century. No crosses are causing any harm either. Really? A curved sword? Probably have to go back to 1800's or so before that was an issue.
Oh but you neglected banks and propaganda conduits before you rolled into an statement made in politics one time. Secret warrants aren't causing near the amount of problems as what you skipped... remember.. the banks and the propaganda conduits. The money and the thoughts.
Oh a USB drive containing something nefarious? The entirety of Windows 10 OS is absolutely unprecedented spyware. And you mention a notion of spyware USB drives? umm
again.. the banks and the media. The government surely is aware of what the fuck I am saying. With zero doubt do I say this.
So carry on. You are a rookie at disseminating lies. I wouldn't suggest improving at it either.
I didn't create these facts. Yet they are facts. Get emotional about it idgaf. They are still the facts. Literally nothing you say will change the facts. Not but that's sad not that's mean not that's absurd not that's preposterous not that's cunning not that's tin foil conspiracy not that's a some percentage not that's anti anything not that's relative to level of Semite not that's nothing. None of it. Those are facts. Connect the dots if you can.
Un-Jew the planet you will be happier. Carry on.
allowing google maps to link search data with your account (were you logged in as well?)? giving your phone number to a stranger who uploads his contact data to facebook. using google and probably not even a private browser window for searches. even using facebook in the first place. i'd call that rather naÃve, using all these services without paying money for them and expecting to not give some data back in exchange.
u mad bro?
https://community.sumofus.org/petitions/operation-applash-child-protection-for-apps-and-software
But "everybody in town" amounted to at most a few hundred people, depending on your social visibility.
People in the towns about yours didn't know your foibles or predilictions, Government or non-local employers certainly didn't. You would have to work hard to make your personal information as visible as it is nowadays. The 21st Century "privacy craze", as you characterise it, is a reaction to the corporate monetisation of every individuals life. This interference in an individuals life is something that has only become possible over the past decade.
And that stinks.
I just updated to Marshmallow, where you can see and control app privileges. I went through the apps and disallowed anything they didn't need. Almost every app had the right to look at my contacts. Music apps, map apps, fitness apps - everything. None of them need this access, but they are all selling it. Hopefully, those days are now over...
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
"Un-Jew the planet"?
I see why you labelled your comment "Bullshit alert".
Having done some family searching with Google I began to notice fake emails coming to my email. Those emails contained the last names I was searching for and I began to put it together. I think its clear that these emails were not coming from legitimate sources but obviously had obtain that information through my searches.
I don't have a Facebook or any other social online account, so I could rule out that as a point of leaking information. I use a Mac and had recently did a complete and clean install of the OS so I am very sure I had no malware on it. The really sobering part of the internet is realizing that your information is not only being used by so called legitimate sources.
If you look at the regular Linux desktop, a DNS server is already provided (usually powerdns) in forwarding mode by default in most major distros, so there isn't really any worse efficiency involved in those circumstances when modifying the configuration. Additionally, they're more efficient than hosts files when blocking entire domains, since you don't need to create over a TB of text file to generate every single possible subdomain combintion (which apparently sticks in your RAM according to you) for just one domain.
My DNS daemon running on my router is more efficient. It returns NXDOMAIN for blocked domains, my browser doesn't even attempt to establish a TCP connection to an IP address, unlike when you use hosts files. This protects an entire network of computers and doesn't require any configuration of any individual systems to make it work either. The faster NXDOMAIN responses than resolution means that it is faster than without too.
Blocking an entire domain (or subdomain) is as simple as this line in Bind 9:
zone "abcstats.com" { type master; file "/dev/null"; };
Bind errors loading the zone, because it's not a valid zone file, effecively using next to no memory for a doman now considered invalid.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Annnnnnd.... That just happened. I can't tell if it's trolling or a true member of the tin hat brigade, but either way...
Get help, man... Get help.
I'll be writing a better version of your software that also deals with the privilege escalation issues and other things that your code does not deal with.
I'm going to ask the good folk here at slashdot to review it for holes and get their feedback on what enhancements it needs. I'm going to make a point about not being a jerk about it so that they recommend my solution over yours. Then I'm going to open source it and the whole reason I'm going to do this is because you are a pain in the ass and you fucking spoil my reading time with an ad I don't want to see. Hopefully you will go out of business and I'll get back to reading more interesting stuff without your annoying fucking ads.
P.S.=> FUCK OFF
Yes, and those pesky little joos also employ trickery by playing devil's advocate and post anti-semitic drivel on message boards anonymously in an attempt to bait non-joos so they can attack them and spew their hatred of the goyim.
Specifically: I use Google and Gmail. I have *never* received spam emails related to searches I've done on Google. And I do a *lot* of Google searches.
Nope. The best orbiting telescopes have a ground resolution in low earth orbit of about 5 cm. That's looking straight down in early morning when the atmosphere is least disturbed. Reading a license plate would require higher resolution and looking through much more atmosphere.
Best Slashdot Co
I was always worried that the feds would tie all their digital resources together and put the smackdown on "us".
I now realize that would ensnare "those that matter" so that will never happen.
Now the private sector has made marketing the winner of that race.
Thank you Google and all the cell phone "helper" apps that map out our every move.
I remember when Google's motto gave "us" the impression evil was not on the agenda.
Seems that some folks have a different definition of evil!
The microscope shoved up my butt is getting bigger, just like boiling a frog.
Rick B.
Two things:
1) You're an idiot. Most of what you're talking about is simple tracking cookies based on your browsing habits, you're just not aware of how easy it is to track you across what seems like unrelated sites ... guess what, ITS FACEBOOK YOU FUCKING MORON. What do you think Like buttons ACTUALLY do? They aren't there so you can Like them, they are there so Facebook knows EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE.
2) Perhaps you should stop using an Android device.
Everything mentioned in the article can be explained by an android device with its shitty permissions stealing information. And it certainly notices when its near other android devices and can easily report that back.
This IS already happening with rogue apps. The question simply becomes, are you using one of those apps?
I say Android specifically because of its all-or-nothing approach to permissions that means people give apps permissions they wouldn't normally because thats the only way they can use the app at all, versus iOS where you simply deny permission to that resource and unless the app 100% depends on THAT resource, you will get rejected from the app store if you don't function without that resource. I.E. No forcing users to allow you to track them in your app that has no reason to track them.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
diffraction limiting of hubble with 2.4 m aperture corresponds to about 30 cm resolution at 1000km range. However, that's for a single image from a non moving sensor. If one has a sensor that is moving, and one can use multiple images combined, you can achieve image resolution substantially better than that.
Reading license plates from orbit should be no problem.
""One night the previous summer, I’d driven to meet a friend at an art gallery in Hollywood, my first visit to a gallery in years. The next morning, in my inbox, several spam e-mails urged me to invest in art. That was an easy one to figure out: I’d typed the name of the gallery into Google Maps."
That does not make a lot of sense. If you started to see ads in Gmail about art then it makes sense. Getting spam does not. Google does not make money on email spam and they would not sell your name to a list. Now if you signed in at the gallery and put down your email address that would make sense.
"“People You May Know,” of a California musician whom I’d bumped into six or seven times at AA meetings in a private home. In accordance with AA custom, he had never told me his last name nor inquired about mine. "
You have your phone number in facebook? Even if you do this again does not make a lot of sense. Apple does no share phonebook data with facebook and Google and Facebook do not share data.
Oh and the rant about AA. Oh well.
Sorry but nothing to see here move along.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (for reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dns blocks
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver).
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Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
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ClarityRay defeats it dumping addons in use in browsers via native browser methods!
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Ab+'s paid to not do its job by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
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Ab+ adds complexity in a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overhead vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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AdBlock's SLOWER vs. hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
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What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antivirus programs in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
When you deal with another person or a business privacy is not really in play. My only objection to anyone deeply studying me is that all other people are not deeply studied. My feeling is that if all people were studied in depth I might look pretty darned good compared to many others. The real issue is lack of equality in data collection and analysis. Further is is all too easy to fool a data mining effort. One might ask Google Maps to give you directions to the local archdiocese or to every major church in the area. Then you might collect addresses and driving directions to every stock brokerage in your area. Then drop some well known names in your emails such as governors with meetings at specific sites and dates and driving directions. One might also make several inquiries into buying the most expensive Mercedes or top of the line Lincolns. You might want to make inquiries about yachts as well. The likely effect is that someone out there may think you buy lots of expensive items and they may butter you up with some gifts designed as incentives. How about yacking about your scholarship fund which does not really exist. Confuse the living daylights out of data mining.
Does your mommy know you're using her computer?
Fair enough, but answer me this one question. Are you a chatbot that ran into a conspiracy site and went nuts?
I use nothing but open source software, as I have for well over a decade. But, that helps absolutely nothing. There is absolutely no way at all for me to verify all of the software that I am using. Even Linus Fucking Torvalds cannot verify the safety of all the software he is using and the supposed code audits of the community at large are proven to be a false sense of security.
I am presently faced with an extremely unsettling situation. Despite living an intentionally anonymous and incognito lifestyle, that even a gangster would be proud of and anyone else would think is paranoid delusion, I have started consistently receiving spam that far too explicitly matches even highly anomalous online activities. Searches for completely novel subjects result in subject specific spam. This is despite incognito mode, AdBlock, noScript, no logins to Google, alternate search engines like startpage.com and DuckDuckGo.com, never having any social media accounts of any kind, different accounts for every site that requires an account at all, no real personal information for anything but my bank EVER...
Well obviously, "the only possible answer" is that I've been pwned. I've ruled out social exchanges with others like emails to people with Gmail accounts or even their systems being owned and using what I sent to them. I thought I knew how to fix being pwned. Unplug my computer, build a new one from scratch, new hardrware, freshly installed distro, everything. The only thing that remains the same is the email address and the ISP. But, the spam continues. Naturally, I didn't expect it to stop. But the accuracy of its subject matter is not just coincidental and is beyond unsettling. It's not misunderstood confirmation bias. It is WAY TOO on point. Esoteric subjects that I have never before touched on, get a little bit of what I thought to be consciously anonymous research and the next day there is on topic or correlated spam. Nope nope nope.
My present suspicion is that my open source software is selling me to an ad network(a single one) like a filthy smartphone app. Mozilla, AdBlock, Evolution, KDE... It sounds paranoid, but there's no doubt that something is up and despite my use/reliance on open source software I am as helpless as a Windows user with 10 toolbars in their browser. Perhaps even more so as, unlike my Windows counterparts, I don't have a fleet of tools that can easily or reliably scan my systems for viruses, trojans, spyware or what have you.
My point is that open source fixes nothing.
Privacy is liberty. Liberty to explore your boundaries, interests, and desires. Liberty to fix your mistakes, change your mind, & move forward in life without being restrained by your past choices and/or errors you have paid your debt to society for. Without privacy none of that is possible.
Dr. Alice P. Kripen? Whether for the APK acronym come hence?
Alex P. Keaton?
There really isn't any such thing as privacy at this point, just "not being worth bothering to look up."
Any data store worth worrying about has probably been compromised. It's currently fairly easy to identify and then get information you want about any given individual, and as tech advances it's going to become absolutely trivial. Even moreso, new tech will come along making some data that are currently very difficult to obtain easy and then trivial.
You don't have privacy now, you don't even have anonymity. And you probably don't even have "not being worth looking up" because someone SOMEWHERE is probably curious enough about you to at least google you or something.
The best course of action, IMO, is to embrace that knowledge and figure out ways to minimize the damage that can be done to you if someone does violate what you imagine is your "privacy." There's no good solution to keeping things ACTUALLY private, but there are plenty of good solutions for minimizing damage of important or personal information being freely available.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
First time I used a smartphone was when I went to Japan and met random people which I then never heard of again. Some of which I took a number from. Though it was a one-time thing.
When I got back they continually showed up in my facebook as "people I might know". I had used Messenger there exclusively to keep in touch with home. Messenger checks out my Address Book.
Why do "free" apps require access to your address book?
You figure it out...
Problem is, other people (like IT sales monkeys) have my contact information in their address books.
And they ignorantly use "free" apps.
Result: I get targeted spam.
A pox on web designers who feel that window.innerWidth == screen.availWidth
When using Android, your phone contacts are stored in the same contacts used by your email, YOU granted access to your email contacts to Facebook and now Facebook scans that information to try and get you to link to them. It's considered by Facebook to be a service that makes it more convenient to connect to people you know. It's not an invasion of privacy since you granted Facebook that access in the first place. Your lack of understanding how it works is your own fault.
... it's already too late for you :-(
Do they see the irony of publishing an article about protecting privacy only to ask you to disable your ad blocker?
Went to a large, well-known building complex, Place X, in a large metro area Metro Y which sells a specific type of good (vague enough for you?). Previously had never expressed interest in this type of good. Had not sent or received email / text / FB, / Twitter nothing not even Googled it or Mapquested it since I know where to find this large complex as does everyone else who lives in that Metro Y area.
No reason at all I should have generated any digital data around my spontaneous decision to *walk left three blocks and pop into very large Place X in Metro Y*. Not even a phone call just before or during or just after my visit. Just a person walking with their phone.
Next day, WHAM, 10,000 ads all over Google in my inbox in my spam box about this type of good.
They know who you are, where you are, why (they believe) you are there whether it's online, online using a VPN, probably online using Tor or just walking around. I take that as my reality and have for a few years now.
I have repeatedly and seriously considered giving up my tracking device, er I mean phone. Tried to revert to an earlier technology but it was pre e-911 ability and so my carrier cannot connect it to their (or any) system any longer.
I may still pull the trigger on this dump the phone idea.
I want Congress to step in here and do for us what the EU does for their citizens and more. After all, we're the home of the free, right? I don't feel free when I am tracked constantly. I feel surveilled, exploited and I feel my autonomy, privacy and self-determination compromised by strangers whose current and future motives are unknown to me .
Dr. Alice P. Kripen? Whether for the APK acronym come hence?
More like Kaminski. This sucker's life is an open book for those of us who really have skills.
Don't forget that no matter how careful you are with your privacy, not using google services, not using facebook, not posting photos, not having an online social media presense, all it takes is someone you know to save your contact info on their phone and sync it with google, now they have your confirmed email, name, number, and address. All it takes is 1 'friend' to upload a photo with you in it to facebook and tag your face with a name/email.... now facebook has you too. And so on....
You can control your own info, but you can't force everyone else you know to do the same.
When I'm 60, I'm retiring to a cabin ala Walden. Fuck this technology.
For people willing to be politically incorrect, Adolf Hitler is considered to be a great speaker.
After World War 1, Germany was unstable, and could have fallen into a civil war. If Germany did not fall to Hitler, it could have fallen to some other German nationalist, or communism. If Hitler did not engage in genocide, or war, he might have been remembered as someone like Nasser.
Mexico is a middle income nation, and most of it is not a third world hellhole. Poor, uneducated Mexicans coming into the United States, which Mexico does not have to pay to educate, or welfare, is a lowered expense for Mexico. Similar things could probably said of people from Appalachia.
Donald Trump is a protectionist. He probably feels the same way about Japan as China. Both gamed the tariffs systems, and stole technology. He probably also supports the import-export bank and sugar tariff. China is much bigger, and communist (fascist?).
I don't know his stance on African Americans.
However, when you consider the $1 trillion spent on Iraq by Bush, and how the Iraqi government was not respectful of the cost to the US taxpayer, and many in parliament wanted America gone, or how rich South Korea gets free military protection from North Korea, it would be nice to have Washington do something about those problems.
Why did you think the Facebook app wanted full access to your contact list
Irrelevant when you don't use forwarding rules in your DNS server configuration.
Botnets, sure.
What I'm suggesting isn't a rogue DNS server either.
So does the DNS daemon in my household.
My DNS daemon is local on the network which has certain zone files for resolving certain hosts. Therefore it is 'far faster' than remote DNS servers too.
In my own experience in Europe, OpenDNS seems to be often slower at resolving than my own DNS daemons. Likely because according to my traceroute, it goes through four countries before I hit their server.
My blacklisted domains shows:
$ wc -l /etc/bind/blacklist /etc/bind/blacklist
13736
(also, look, I can split things up across multiple files for organisational purposes)
Most of those entries include all the subdomains of a given known malicious domain, so no duplicate entries needed to filter out various subdomains.
To do what I do with my DNS server, it would take up more CPU, RAM, I/O and disk space with a hosts file and the work would have to be duplicated across each system. However, not each system in my household can even do hosts. Such as the game consoles, tablets and mobile phones. So, even if I was doing /just/ what you were doing, it would not be sufficient.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
See subject: From reputable sources. There's no denying it (or validly technically disproving it either).
* :)
FACT:
Hosts do FAR more for added speed, security, reliability, + anonymity for FAR less on many levels opposed to other tools that only do a fraction of what hosts can & with something you already natively have in hosts, a SINGLE FILE PART only
vs.
Stupidly illogically "Bolting on 'MoAr'" (especially in added moving parts complexity & room for exploit) to do less than hosts do!
(Which is more than ANY single browser addon there is, that's certain & more efficiently by hosts too)
APK
P.S.=> I don't think truer words were ever spoken here on slashdot in fact... apk
The 'corporations' meme is bogus jew psy ops, it is all JEWS. gates, allen JEWS, jobs, ellison JEWS google JEWS fraud 'government' 'nsa', most all 'web service' and 'security' and 'privacy' companies, the food, water, electric which dupes financed by tax, then jews stole into 'private' companies. This is 'system' of the fake life morons are living. Mass ignorance of mass of jew lies gave the jews the trillions in weapons, now, they not only have every data, they are also raping your brain, via the nano chips implanted in you from their chemtrails. Also they sprayed a virus. The nano chips are for brain rape now, and for control of those leftover from the virus by their 'wireless' ipv6 and 'smart grid'.
Most all 'whites' in 'media', 'government', 65% of so called 'doctors', 'scientists', 'professors', 80% lawyers, 'judges', are not nordic white they're 'white' ashkenazi jew race regardless what religion they claim, those that aren't jews work for them.
Over 90% of All posts online are by jews, financed by fraud jew 'government' and their 'holocaust' payoffs and millions of other jew schemes. The jews have paid themselves and their 'families' over 200 Billion from the 'tax' of everyone else.
thezog.info
leuchter report at archive.org
http://jewishcrimenetworkdid911.blogspot.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20100825152627/http://jewishfaces.com/banking.html
see all pages at top
holodomorinfo.com
newworldwar.org/chemical.htm
According to the author, the only real consequences of his relatively careless use of the internet are that he received targeted ads that could have been embarrassing in circumstances that didn't occur and he knows the real name of guy he met in person and exchanged personal phone numbers with... how frightening.
If you worry about such things you are already a bit paranoid. And if you are paranoid about this but not about your privacy, then sure you are crazy. Not because you are not paranoid enough, but because you are inconsistent.
"Un-Jew the planet"?
I see why you labelled your comment "Bullshit alert".
Accidentlally 18+ trillion in debt?
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Whodunnit?
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/156146/yellen-at-the-fed
http://forward.com/opinion/185284/janet-yellen-brings-jewish-side-to-fed-again/
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talk
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talk
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talk
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past dns blocks
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing (adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Easy data control
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = on devices natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN operation (as 1st resolver).
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Ab+'s a 128-151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts use 3-11mb w/ my program initially). Even FireFox 41 adblock eats 65++mb http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/...
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ClarityRay defeats it seeing addons used via native browser methods!
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Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
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Ab+ adds complexity in slower usermode (w/ more messagepassing overhead + context switch vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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AdBlock's SLOWER vs. hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
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What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antivirus programs in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
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ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
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UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Kaminsky redirect poisoning - 99.999% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. it.
Open DNS resolvers (not OpenDNS) get exploited by malware A LOT!
Rogue DNS servers are DNS exploit (even in routers not just system IP stack settings).
* Using hosts w/ fav sites you hardcode in 'em YOU AVOID ALL THOSE DNS SECURITY ISSUES ABOVE easily & IT RESOLVES FAR FASTER THAN CALLING TO REMOTE DNS SERVERS (especially exploited or downed ones noted (dns goes down a LOT)).
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Hosts combined w/ OpenDNS compliment one other.
I don't resolve 'every host-domain there is' via hosts, only my favs @ top of hosts (20 of 'em beating indexing past 2++ million records).
It's where ANYONE spends MOST OF THEIR TIME online - & it's faster + more efficient vs. calling to remote DNS servers.
Placement of favs thus, for FAST RESOLUTION from memory locally (hosts cache like any file) additionally saves CPU cycles, RAM, + I/O turning off a slower usermode clientside DNS cache service instead opting for the kernelmode diskcache (no context switch overhead to the IP stack either this way).
The rest of my hosts files' entries are 3,782,195++ blocked entries vs. malware & ads of many kinds.
I use REMOTE FILTERING DNS SERVERS blocking out malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains via DNS blocking (not locally here as a separate redundant wasteful recursive server or a service/daemon).
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OpenDNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
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It LIGHTENS remote DNS loads - admins of 'em should like it! Especially since DNS goes down a LOT!
How do I make my hosts (& do reverse dns pings for FAV sites for faster, more reliable, & safer connections)?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
With much easier understood & edited data vs. DNS rules by far.
APK
P.S.=> Locally setup DNS eats more cpu, RAM, & I/O needlessly (hosts do the job w/ less complexity + room for exploit, actually COMPLIMENTING remote dns) & MORE ELECTRICAL POWER (especially if setup as a separate machine)... apk
See subject: Protecting privacy, anonymity, speed, security + reliability via APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
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FREE & not 'souled-out' to advertisers & does FAR more w/ FAR less more efficiently vs. redundant browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' many security issues & it stops a LOT of tracking @ webpage + DNS levels combined too from 1 file you already NATIVELY have - firewalls do the rest (on lesser used IP address based tracking vs. host-domain name type).
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It obtains its data vs. online threats & for adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
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It SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed vs. remote DNS also aiding reliability) vs. other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOWING YOU!
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It does that via something you already natively have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR'" that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overheads!
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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* "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend".
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
Wasting CPU, RAM, & other forms of I/O adding more room for breakdown + exploit (some of which I listed) AS WELL AS BURNING MORE ELECTRICAL POWER YOU PAY FOR (especially if a DNS is setup as a separate machine).
* Being illogical, wasteful & stupid makes you happy? Fine - it's your life!
APK
P.S.=> Between hosts & firewalls (something you already have natively vs. DNS which MOST systems do NOT have natively) you have all you need... apk
DNS data + PLUS programs & daemons/services eat more resources period + add complexity & exploit or breakdown (only some possible I listed WHICH YOU EVEN CONCEDED no less) does the rest for showing YOU ARE "Bolting on 'MoAr'" stupidly & illogically!
(Especially for a home network with a couple of endpoints off of it that do NOT need all that added complexity on ALL fronts!)
You don't need DNS @ home (especially when setup as a separate machine EATING EXCESSIVE POWER when it's not necessary) when hosts files + firewalls (THINGS YOU ALREADY HAVE) do the job better, cheaper on all fronts, & are less insecure by far vs. DNS!
(& rules in hosts are INCREDIBLY simple to understand vs. dns rules + faster a GOOD 95++% of the time when you hardcode in your favorite sites using either the FAULTY WITH LARGER HOSTS FILES usermode slower clientside cache service in Windows, or as I do it, via another kernelmode subsystem (diskcache) working in combination with TCP/IP itself, with no context-switch to usermode overheads @ all).
* You can't win...
APK
P.S.=> Always a pleasure tearing you apart Ash-Fox - it's VERY EASY to do... apk
The fact Ash-Fox obviously alternate sockpuppet account minusmodded apk's post to try hide it says it all.