We do not need the government or the corpsicles to ensure our privacy. In the last few days I noticed a few messages trying to sepparate anonimity from privacy, but the reality is that we need only three things to ensure our privacy on the internet. 1. Anonimity (i.e. Freedom's network) 2. Getting more of the world to use strong encription all of the time. If you use encription only when you transmit credit card info, or illeagal info, you are allready telling the world something. Encript everything and you give away nothing. 3. Use common sense. You wouldn't go out of your way to tell your next door neighbor how many hotcakes you ate for breakfast, why would you tell some online corperate entity. If someone forces you to answer qustions you about things you feel should be private in order to do business with them, do business with their competition and let them know the reason you are not shopping with them. Remember, you choose to make your information available. Part of the problem appears to be that we have tossed our brand loyalties in the wastebasket in favor of lowest prices. Now that we find out that the lowest priced hairdresser is telling our friends our little secrets we are getting upset. Sad thing is, we already had a good hairdresser a few weeks ago who kept our secrets, but was a little more expensive. What pisses me off about all of this is that there seems to be a trend here of: Person gets on internet. Person does something stupid. Person feels stupid. Person cries foul to the government and want's them to fix it. Same for companies. Has the whole world degenerated so badly in the case of personal responsibility? Come on people. I smoke, smoking kills people. I may die because of my smoking, but I will not be sueing the tobacco companies over it. If I give my information away and it becomes public, I should have known better and so should you.
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I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. There is a perfectly easy way to maintain your privacy in this type of environment. Step 1. Live randomly. The way I see it any one wanting to keep a full focus picture of me would have to hire a full staff of psychologists full time and still wouldn't keep up. Step 2. Don't care. I tell everyone around me everything about me anyway, so I doubt that there is any thing that someone could 'hold over' me any way. Step 3. Be one with the crowd. The truth is that with the exception of my family, friends and my coworkers, I really don't think that any one cares enough to look me up. i.e. I have a listed phone number and I still don't get very many calls. Step 4. I don't purchase things on a whim. This makes any advertizing money spent on me a complete waste. So, where's the problem??? If anybody wanted to know anything about me, they would just have to ask someone I know. Most of my friends would be more than happy to dvulge that information. I guess basically, what I am trying to say is I hide nothing, I have nothing to hide. If some people don't like something about me, well I don't wish to have them like me. If the powers that be decide that at some point they don't like something about me, it will either be time to move, or join an opposing force.
Ok, lets consider. I am a multinational corp. I have a copyright which is valid in many countries. You violate my copyright on your web site. I now go and sue you in each and every one of those countries. Worse, most of these coutries have extradition treaties with each other.
You now face huge fines and possiable jail terms to be served across the board in most of the civilized world...
What is going on here is that lawyers have found yet another way to make money on the internet.
We need to coin a new term, maybe e-suit, or e-chaser.
Companies do not generally try to do evil things on the net. Corporations however(companies with a legal identity) are feeling the loss of control that the internet is bringing to their front doors. The lawyers feel that they must tame the net. That is what this is about. If the lawyers manage to win enough net battles that they can reinstill a fear of disobedience in us, they can get back some of their control.
OK, so maybe I'm rambling a bit.
Personally I think that these e-suits are a very loud calling for every one of us to contribute as much time and effort into bringing FreeNet online as possiable. Because once FreeNet(or a like interspace) is in existance, all of these law suits will become pointless(DeCss, Napster, Patents, etc.). Maybe we will even be able to reduce the economics of being in the legal business.
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It seems that a very important truth was skipped over by this book.
The only moral existant in war is: He who wins is right. Everything else is commentary.
Or how about this easy protection of your privacy? Lie 2/3 of the time when you fill out online forms.
This type of thing can plague these systems for years if enough people do it.
We do not need the government or the corpsicles to ensure our privacy. In the last few days I noticed a few messages trying to sepparate anonimity from privacy, but the reality is that we need only three things to ensure our privacy on the internet. 1. Anonimity (i.e. Freedom's network) 2. Getting more of the world to use strong encription all of the time. If you use encription only when you transmit credit card info, or illeagal info, you are allready telling the world something. Encript everything and you give away nothing. 3. Use common sense. You wouldn't go out of your way to tell your next door neighbor how many hotcakes you ate for breakfast, why would you tell some online corperate entity. If someone forces you to answer qustions you about things you feel should be private in order to do business with them, do business with their competition and let them know the reason you are not shopping with them. Remember, you choose to make your information available. Part of the problem appears to be that we have tossed our brand loyalties in the wastebasket in favor of lowest prices. Now that we find out that the lowest priced hairdresser is telling our friends our little secrets we are getting upset. Sad thing is, we already had a good hairdresser a few weeks ago who kept our secrets, but was a little more expensive. What pisses me off about all of this is that there seems to be a trend here of: Person gets on internet. Person does something stupid. Person feels stupid. Person cries foul to the government and want's them to fix it. Same for companies. Has the whole world degenerated so badly in the case of personal responsibility? Come on people. I smoke, smoking kills people. I may die because of my smoking, but I will not be sueing the tobacco companies over it. If I give my information away and it becomes public, I should have known better and so should you.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. There is a perfectly easy way to maintain your privacy in this type of environment. Step 1. Live randomly. The way I see it any one wanting to keep a full focus picture of me would have to hire a full staff of psychologists full time and still wouldn't keep up. Step 2. Don't care. I tell everyone around me everything about me anyway, so I doubt that there is any thing that someone could 'hold over' me any way. Step 3. Be one with the crowd. The truth is that with the exception of my family, friends and my coworkers, I really don't think that any one cares enough to look me up. i.e. I have a listed phone number and I still don't get very many calls. Step 4. I don't purchase things on a whim. This makes any advertizing money spent on me a complete waste. So, where's the problem??? If anybody wanted to know anything about me, they would just have to ask someone I know. Most of my friends would be more than happy to dvulge that information. I guess basically, what I am trying to say is I hide nothing, I have nothing to hide. If some people don't like something about me, well I don't wish to have them like me. If the powers that be decide that at some point they don't like something about me, it will either be time to move, or join an opposing force.
I just realized something...
The Internet really does change everything.
Ok, lets consider. I am a multinational corp. I have a copyright which is valid in many countries. You violate my copyright on your web site. I now go and sue you in each and every one of those countries. Worse, most of these coutries have extradition treaties with each other.
You now face huge fines and possiable jail terms to be served across the board in most of the civilized world...
Have the lawyers thought of this one?
Scary.
Don't you guys see it.
What is going on here is that lawyers have found yet another way to make money on the internet.
We need to coin a new term, maybe e-suit, or e-chaser.
Companies do not generally try to do evil things on the net. Corporations however(companies with a legal identity) are feeling the loss of control that the internet is bringing to their front doors. The lawyers feel that they must tame the net. That is what this is about. If the lawyers manage to win enough net battles that they can reinstill a fear of disobedience in us, they can get back some of their control.
OK, so maybe I'm rambling a bit.
Personally I think that these e-suits are a very loud calling for every one of us to contribute as much time and effort into bringing FreeNet online as possiable. Because once FreeNet(or a like interspace) is in existance, all of these law suits will become pointless(DeCss, Napster, Patents, etc.). Maybe we will even be able to reduce the economics of being in the legal business.