Re:Don't f* with the IT guy like at restaurant you
on
Child Porn As a Weapon
·
· Score: 0, Troll
No, I'm not one of those people. But there is a huge difference between taking a picture of little Sally in the bathtub for the home photo album than there is posting that same picture on your open-to-everyone Facebook page. Or are you one of those people that can't see a difference?
But three that WikiLeaks shared the data with are from three separate countries. And sure a massive number of people have already downloaded the edited versions. This ship has sailed and no amount of bickering will bring it ashore.
While a valid example, this slope started long before Obama. Anything done in the name of "the war on terror" is now a valid invasion of privacy and a right of the the government (thanks to Bush). There is no going back, but there is always an option of starting over.
Live fast, die young, leave behind the shell of a once great nation.
See, that is the problem. Information collected, regardless of the initial reason, can be used for ANY purpose later on. That is the whole theory behind data mining in the business world. Collect a bunch of data and then mine the hell out of it for useful trends and other information.
Privacy is not paranoia, at least not by default. Are you telling us you completely trust your government to do what is best for you with the information it collects and stores forever? What about businesses that contract with the government and gain access to the information? What about the businesses that collect the information for the government and keep a copy for themselves?
Fourteen photos is nothing considering how many cameras there are flying around all over public areas. They have cameras at airports that can take a photo with HUNDREDS of people on them and identify their faces from a database within seconds. The 14 photos of you don't have to come from your limited view of the Internet (consider every place you've been that has had a camera: banks, airports, schools, etc.). There is a lot more information out there collected about you than you can being to imagine.
Once your "photo blueprint" is a associated with you as an individual, you can be tracked all over the place without you ever knowing. Imagine a program that you feed a security tape into that spits out a list of names of everyone it identifies and a variety of frames of those that it does not. Sure beats having a human go through and collect that information. The scary part is that this is not "future tech"... it is stuff available today.
Not every country will require it. Not to mention you could encrypt everything you do while you are connected, effectively making everything you do hidden. This might even open up a whole new black market for "connection laundering".:p
Do you live in a big city with street cameras? Ever had a driver's license or other photo ID? Ever been to an airport or government building? There are photos of you all over the place.
I suspect that entire subnets of the Internet will be encrypted and continue to allow anonymity. Not to mention, there is always your public library or Internet cafe. It's not like spies will stop using the Internet, so "solutions" to this problem will inevitably surface.
Re:I Guess I Don't Exist Then ...
on
Why Wave Failed
·
· Score: 1
Slashdot Mirror
No, I'm not one of those people. But there is a huge difference between taking a picture of little Sally in the bathtub for the home photo album than there is posting that same picture on your open-to-everyone Facebook page. Or are you one of those people that can't see a difference?
So walking around with a bomb strapped to your chest is ok? Or carrying a machine gun into a bank? There have to be limits, silly. :p
Anyone pointing their browser at 4chan deserves what they get.
Even if a 6 year old gives you permission to photograph them naked doesn't mean it is right or socially acceptable.
IT folks deal with a LOT more shit.
If they match one photo (drivers license, for instance) to your identity then matching any other photo to you is a lot easier to do.
But three that WikiLeaks shared the data with are from three separate countries. And sure a massive number of people have already downloaded the edited versions. This ship has sailed and no amount of bickering will bring it ashore.
Businesses would object vehemently to that. Banking alone would make that notion impossible from a political standpoint.
Considering they've already shared the unedited files with at least three other news agencies.. yeah, this is just the beginning.
While a valid example, this slope started long before Obama. Anything done in the name of "the war on terror" is now a valid invasion of privacy and a right of the the government (thanks to Bush). There is no going back, but there is always an option of starting over.
Live fast, die young, leave behind the shell of a once great nation.
See, that is the problem. Information collected, regardless of the initial reason, can be used for ANY purpose later on. That is the whole theory behind data mining in the business world. Collect a bunch of data and then mine the hell out of it for useful trends and other information.
Privacy is not paranoia, at least not by default. Are you telling us you completely trust your government to do what is best for you with the information it collects and stores forever? What about businesses that contract with the government and gain access to the information? What about the businesses that collect the information for the government and keep a copy for themselves?
Fourteen photos is nothing considering how many cameras there are flying around all over public areas. They have cameras at airports that can take a photo with HUNDREDS of people on them and identify their faces from a database within seconds. The 14 photos of you don't have to come from your limited view of the Internet (consider every place you've been that has had a camera: banks, airports, schools, etc.). There is a lot more information out there collected about you than you can being to imagine.
Once your "photo blueprint" is a associated with you as an individual, you can be tracked all over the place without you ever knowing. Imagine a program that you feed a security tape into that spits out a list of names of everyone it identifies and a variety of frames of those that it does not. Sure beats having a human go through and collect that information. The scary part is that this is not "future tech"... it is stuff available today.
Not every country will require it. Not to mention you could encrypt everything you do while you are connected, effectively making everything you do hidden. This might even open up a whole new black market for "connection laundering". :p
Do you live in a big city with street cameras? Ever had a driver's license or other photo ID? Ever been to an airport or government building? There are photos of you all over the place.
I suspect that entire subnets of the Internet will be encrypted and continue to allow anonymity. Not to mention, there is always your public library or Internet cafe. It's not like spies will stop using the Internet, so "solutions" to this problem will inevitably surface.
Not just a bot, a dung bot!
(see their sig)
Do the ones in Europe have cars riding UNDER them?
Seems like any accident could leave debris in the tracks. I can't imagine that would end well. It would also be very easy to sabotage.
Pricing: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing
That $1 per copy figure seems awfully high, considering their AWS prices for such a transaction are several orders of magnitude lower.
That's Muhahahammad.
Because they're too busy using white-out on their eyes to prevent getting raided by the FBI.
So how long can we afford to maintain 50000 troops in Iraq?
So, what... The solution is for the US to stay forever?
How can you be so certain?