While the US could muck with the root zone, it would be a one-time event. The root only has records for the TLDs, like.COM,.NET,.CN,.RU.
While the US has mucked with gTLD zones by forcing Registrars in the US to point the DNS to their servers, they have never gone into the TLD zone itself or interfered with the operations of the gTLD zones directly. They could, but going the Registrar route is easier. Going directly to a TLD zone edit would also most likely be a one-time event.
When I say "one-time" event, I mean that if the US touches the root zone outside of the established processes, everyone else is going to insist that the UN or other International body maintain control and/or they will move to a new root under the control of the UN, etc.
As far as a "one-time" event for the gTLDs that the US controls, it will force anyone with any security mindset to move outside those gTLDs. In fact, this may already be the case for most due to the Registrar-based takeovers by the US ICE and others.
What moving to DNSSEC gives you is control at the "dot" level. The US (nor any other country outside of each country's own ccTLD) should have no control whatsoever for any ccTLDs (.CN,.RU, etc.) other than to maintain the root servers which point to the ccTLD NS and the DNSSEC info needed to establish the chain of trust from the root down.
The problem with SSL Root CAs is that they have global authority for all domains. DNSSEC authority is tied to the zone-level.
The problem with both is that a DoS/MitM attack can stop either from working. All I have to do is block DNSSEC records and you just have to say "oh well, I cannot get secure records back." But it is the same situation with a MitM SSL decrypt/encrypt with a fake Root CA (you just have to shrug and known you are not getting a secure connection).
Ultimately I think DNSSEC + CA certs servers/signatures in DNS which are limited to the zone they are for is going to be the way to go. This is going to take support on the Browser Vendors to get on board. Good news is Google Chrome is already on the way.
I'm a long-time RedHat distro family user (since '99 with Red Hat Linux 5.2).
For the non-technical, I would not recommend Fedora. Fedora installs systems go End of Life (EOL) every 13 months, and that's if you install right after a release. Current supported Fedora 14 will EOL ~Dec, 2011. Latest Fedora 15 release will EOL ~June, 2012. Fine for a desktop user who likes to do fresh installs once or twice a year and play with the latest thing. Not wise for a server install (unless you want to reinstall every year and troubleshoot breakage/incompatibilities each time).
RHEL self-support Server is $349/year, but you want this so you get all the security updates in a timely fashion (hours, worst case within the day). I would recommend this method. Ask folks to chip in $5/year. Most won't, some will (you just need 70), bank the extra for the next year subscription renewal. The advantage is that if you install RHEL6 now, you're good on support until at least 2016 with support.
The free version of RHEL, CentOS, is constantly out of date with Security updates. The team works for free, but it's a closed development process ("" CentOS is a Community distribution for download and install, not community for development processes). I would not recommend CentOS to anyone who can't manually chase down security fixes.
Frankly, assuming you're on a free-lunch budget, I would find a LTS version of Ubuntu or something where you can install it and follow some best-practice hardening guides and basically forget it for 5 years. I'm tempted to go that direction as well for my personal stuff, but as I maintain RHEL at work, not sure I want to have to learn/maintain two different knowledge sets of "how to do things."
It's a lot more than the stocking staff that can't get 40 hours a week. Almost no non-"Management" types can get 40 hours, and the reason the "Management" types get 40 hours is so they can abuse them on salary without an hourly wage (don't know that for a fact, just guessing as most of corporate America does that).
One of the problems I see is that Walmart purposely keeps most of their employees at 40 hours/week so they can't get benefits. Further, they promote all of those employees getting on all the government assistance they can. Yeah, nice favor, but how about sharing your load and letting those who want to work 40 hours work that and obtain the benefits they should be provided and off of government assistance. Walmart's low prices are the result of than government-funding which we cannot afford, which not only drains the taxes coming, but increases the national debt and causes inflation to rise.
We all pay for Walmart. The problem is that people won't say no. Not the lawmakers and not the masses who shop there.
I think Cisco has had their eyes on the Tandberg line for a long time, ever since their CallManager protocols were licensed to them and Video was taking off. While Cisco could make all their own gear, my guess is they need Tandberg's patents, which will also stifle any competition.
I couldn't agree more. I rarely contact TAC, and typically when I do it is due to a bug. Last bug I ran into was with their Botnet DNS and alias code in the ASA. Could not get TAC to continue working the issue without giving them my configs, which I cannot. I didn't have time to lab a clean config with the minimum portions to reproduce, and they won't carry the ball without. Worthless support.
Get more quotes. 3 is the minimum, ever. 5-6 is best. Whoever has "registered" you with Cisco first will have an additional discount that others may not have had (but others with gold or other status already have some discounts). Never lump parts with SmartNET or labor - get bids all 3 individually, or make sure you can line-item order.
It's probably identical equipment, just made on a third shift that is off the books using serial numbers from the first and second shifts and sold as "out of channel" for a discount.
Or, it may be equipment that is made totally identically (or leaving out "unnecessary" parts or using cheaper parts).
Worst case, it may be an operation backed by the Chinese government to get back doors into the hardware used in mission critical systems.
The original author's words would be cited and would not be plagiarism. Plagiarism is copying another work without citation and trying to pass it off as your own.
True, but not sure if and how the cable company would bill two modems at the same address. Unfortunately the address is probably always tied to the account and cannot allow for two accounts at the same address. Wouldn't hurt to look into it.
Well, there is the other side: my co-worker who needs both, isn't going to pay even $1,500 out of pocket, and only got one. I'm assuming he got the $3,000 model for the worst ear. We all know which side to stand on to talk to him.
I'm not sure if it is like eye insurance - where you get either one pair of glasses or contacts each year - so you get glasses this year, contacts the next, and alternate.
However, if it is, he'll just get the second hearing aid in a year or two.
I don't know what agreements you have in place, but if the Internet connection is in your name, then I would not allow anyone else to connect that you cannot trust.
If the Internet connection is in your troublesome roommate's name, I would get your own Internet connection. This may be difficult, but most places have at least 2-3 ISP options (DSL, Cable, Clear, etc.). It's too bad you probably can't get two public IPs for your connection and each have your own router for your devices behind it.
I think paying for your own Internet (or not having your roommate chip in or having to give them a discount for their share of the Internet you are not going to share) is more than worth it.
When (not if, it will happen eventually unless the laws are changed) your roommate ends up in court and should you somehow get named, your defense will be easy. You never connected to his Internet and have your own. Produce your bills as proof, and that's the end of the story for you.
I think the advice that someone else gave about keeping logs of where the connection went is a good idea at first thought - and I'm not lawyer - but that sounds kinda shady - you kept logs to prove it wasn't you? How do you prove there wasn't any editing or that you only ever used that one IP? Just sounds like you could have audit problems proving things since you would have access to the logging system. To have it be bulletproof, you need to have some third-party setting up that system without you having access to it.
Make it a game. That can get everyone on board. That and have something tangible as reward to do with the savings. Like trips, hell even pizza nights paid for being smart work.
Not a bad idea to do the reward thing. We do most of what you talk about. Where I live we have SmartMeters, but they have not yet given access to the data to customers yet. However, I now work for the local utility and can get my usage after I VPN to work and access the AMI system to see hourly usage.
Once they roll out customer access to the hourly usage then billing will be switching to Time of Use (ToU) billing as well. The irrigation/power utility is a not-for-profit, so the goal isn't to gauge customers, but to have the net costs of purchasing and maintaining the system be covered by the usage of customers. One way to save money is to have to buy less at peak times (by "shaving the peak"), so using ToU billing helps influence customers to shift their flexible usage (clothes, dishwasher, even pre-cooling/delayed-cooling with A/C) to cheaper times (basically non-business hours) or if they want to use at expensive times they can pay more for it.
Anyway, the point is that I can look at overall power usage and reward when it is the same or less than the previous year's month. Same with water usage as really the only variation is in shower usage. We have a dual-head shower in all three bathrooms, and one head is set to very low-flow, and the other to normal flow, with a real quick 90 degree twist of a dial to switch between. I can tell when the four kids are not using the low-flow for the bulk of the shower (you really only need the normal flow for initial wetting and rinsing at the end, and the low-flow is just so you feel comfortable and don't get cold in the winter). The water bill will jump $20-30 in those cases (we're metered and double-billed accordingly - once for water in and once for water going to the sewer system less our lawn usage).
One thing we have not done as of yet is to replace our dishwasher. The current model is hand-me-down from someone as the one in our home never worked and we just did them by hand. It's been giving us some fits anyway, so I'm going to start price shopping a new dishwasher and see if it makes sense to replace.
I don't need them, but at my job I heard from another guy who does need them that our work insurance will pay up to something like $3,000 for ONE hearing aid. Doesn't matter if you want to get two $1,500 units, that's not allowed, they only cover one hearing aid. How retarded is that? Especially when the guy likes to ride road bicycles everywhere. Insurance is going to pay a ton more if he gets hospitalized in a bicyclist vs. car accident when he misses some sounds that might have kept him more safe.
I've been at BART platforms during peak times. Having people blocking paths at the SF stations and trying to carry signs could cause a safety hazard, especially if tensions rise, add in non-peaceful protesters and/or antagonized travelers trying to get to work or get to home.
Just saying, "That's what police are for" angers me as a citizen who might need to use those resources. Have you ever had to call 911 and not have them show up for long periods of time? I've always been able to solve my own problems while waiting for the Police, but I want that resource to be there for my Wife and kids.
I don't do it for the carbon, I bike/bus to work because: 1. It's way cheaper: $41/mo for an unlimited bus pass vs. auto insurance (and however the costs break down to purchase a vehicle) (We lost a vehicle due to a hit and run driver. Our insurance paid off the auto loan and a little more for our own pocket. We didn't replace the vehicle and just have one now.) 2. It's way more healthy. I've a desk job, and typically work 45-50 hours a week. Being able to bike all the way (4 miles one-way) to or from work a handful times per week is a great 25-30 minute workout. I've access to lockers and a shower at work and keep a handful of outfits at work (I mostly bike all the way home, not on the way in since exchanging clothing requires a car trip. 3. I can relax and watch 20 minutes of reading and/or a show on my Nook while riding the bus. I don't have to worry about other rude drivers - so my resulting stress level is reduced (instead of kept the same in increased).
I gave up $35K/year to stay local, but I also don't have a 3-4 hour daily commute to the Bay Area. The net result is that I actually earn more per hour use for "work" (commute time may not be productive for my employer, but it sure is a loss for me). I've got "admin time" which is like flex time - I can earn and then later use, which is nice as in the past year I haven't used a day of vacation time, but just been using "admin time" for my days off.
Yes, each BART car has a wall-mounted phone which connects you to the BART police. I'm sure each loading platform has one more more of them as well (but I've never looked for them).
Each BART car has a wall-mounted phone which is connected to the BART Police. I've never looked for them, but I'm sure each platform area also has the same.
Each car also has a wall-mounted emergency phone connected to the BART Police. I've used it before and resulted in someone getting arrested at the next stop for smoking on the BART car. Yes, smoking, in the BART car, in a tunnel.
Stinks to have to deal with people who are too cheap to use software that follows published standards. Glad I don't have to, and just drop all packets from netblocks of all the top spamming countries like China, Russia, etc.
I do that and per-site/per-person/per-list aliases which keep me mostly spam-free. The only regular spam I get is from my published GPG keys, and at least those all go to the same folder which I mostly ignore. If some site/person/list leaks my alias for them, I just bump it to a new one (if I plan to keep contact with them at all), and reject the old one at my MTA. Biggest problem is with public WHOIS listings, but like I said, I just change the alias each time it occurs, which now is rather infrequent (perhaps once a year).
The only time I ever had problem was with some guy involved in some housing credit fraud with mortgage loans decided to come after me for outing him to his employer and credit card companies he was using to scam with. All I did was include the IRC log where he was trying to get others in on his scam. Lesson learned: out the guy, but do it anonymously. I was able to block all the spam he caused me once I saw the lame pattern he was using to semi-randomize the destination aliases.
I'll gladly take my self-hosted solution over relying on Google or anyone else any day.
When I bought my first house (650sq ft.) in a bad neighborhood (Police were always like, "why don't you move?"), but the folks in the 3-unit apartments on my court would have an RTO truck show up and bring in a big screen TV and couches and stuff, then 3-4 months later it'd show up again to take the stuff back. Over and over. Comcast truck was there all the time hooking people up as well (and probably putting blocks on the disconnect as well) as the box for the court was on my properly line.
Most of the teens all managed to have the latest shoes and jerseys too, and the adults all had smokes and alcohol.
It was a below poverty level living, but they didn't have it that bad. Let any of them win the lottery and they'd be back in the same place or worse in a year.
This was back when DSL first hit: I made a deal with some teens right next door - we'd trench over and lay a pipe for CAT5 and I'd share my Internet with them. I even worked out a deal with them to include a PC (low-end build from spare parts, but still, it worked just fine for the OS of the day). I don't remember the exact figures, but basically for the first 6 months they were mowing the lawn to pay me back for the pipe and PC parts, and after that I was paying them half the going rate for lawn maintenance (and they got Internet). All they had to do was mow the lawn once a week. I provided the lawn mower and gas. They just had to show up and spend 45 minutes mowing.
Guess how long that lasted? Yeah, needless to say they never paid off the PC parts, and sure never got paid for mowing (well, if you include the PC and couple months of lawn mowing, they made out).
Hindsight, I'd should have made them earn the piping and PC parts up front, once they had, then give it to them. Then go month to month on the Internet/mowing. Oh well, I bought a riding mower anyway (yeah, it was a big lawn, but I could mow it in 45 minutes with a push mower, or 10 with a riding mower).
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While the US could muck with the root zone, it would be a one-time event. The root only has records for the TLDs, like .COM, .NET, .CN, .RU.
While the US has mucked with gTLD zones by forcing Registrars in the US to point the DNS to their servers, they have never gone into the TLD zone itself or interfered with the operations of the gTLD zones directly. They could, but going the Registrar route is easier. Going directly to a TLD zone edit would also most likely be a one-time event.
When I say "one-time" event, I mean that if the US touches the root zone outside of the established processes, everyone else is going to insist that the UN or other International body maintain control and/or they will move to a new root under the control of the UN, etc.
As far as a "one-time" event for the gTLDs that the US controls, it will force anyone with any security mindset to move outside those gTLDs. In fact, this may already be the case for most due to the Registrar-based takeovers by the US ICE and others.
What moving to DNSSEC gives you is control at the "dot" level. The US (nor any other country outside of each country's own ccTLD) should have no control whatsoever for any ccTLDs (.CN, .RU, etc.) other than to maintain the root servers which point to the ccTLD NS and the DNSSEC info needed to establish the chain of trust from the root down.
The problem with SSL Root CAs is that they have global authority for all domains. DNSSEC authority is tied to the zone-level.
The problem with both is that a DoS/MitM attack can stop either from working. All I have to do is block DNSSEC records and you just have to say "oh well, I cannot get secure records back." But it is the same situation with a MitM SSL decrypt/encrypt with a fake Root CA (you just have to shrug and known you are not getting a secure connection).
Ultimately I think DNSSEC + CA certs servers/signatures in DNS which are limited to the zone they are for is going to be the way to go. This is going to take support on the Browser Vendors to get on board. Good news is Google Chrome is already on the way.
I'm a long-time RedHat distro family user (since '99 with Red Hat Linux 5.2).
For the non-technical, I would not recommend Fedora. Fedora installs systems go End of Life (EOL) every 13 months, and that's if you install right after a release. Current supported Fedora 14 will EOL ~Dec, 2011. Latest Fedora 15 release will EOL ~June, 2012. Fine for a desktop user who likes to do fresh installs once or twice a year and play with the latest thing. Not wise for a server install (unless you want to reinstall every year and troubleshoot breakage/incompatibilities each time).
RHEL self-support Server is $349/year, but you want this so you get all the security updates in a timely fashion (hours, worst case within the day). I would recommend this method. Ask folks to chip in $5/year. Most won't, some will (you just need 70), bank the extra for the next year subscription renewal. The advantage is that if you install RHEL6 now, you're good on support until at least 2016 with support.
The free version of RHEL, CentOS, is constantly out of date with Security updates. The team works for free, but it's a closed development process ("" CentOS is a Community distribution for download and install, not community for development processes). I would not recommend CentOS to anyone who can't manually chase down security fixes.
Frankly, assuming you're on a free-lunch budget, I would find a LTS version of Ubuntu or something where you can install it and follow some best-practice hardening guides and basically forget it for 5 years. I'm tempted to go that direction as well for my personal stuff, but as I maintain RHEL at work, not sure I want to have to learn/maintain two different knowledge sets of "how to do things."
It's a lot more than the stocking staff that can't get 40 hours a week. Almost no non-"Management" types can get 40 hours, and the reason the "Management" types get 40 hours is so they can abuse them on salary without an hourly wage (don't know that for a fact, just guessing as most of corporate America does that).
One of the problems I see is that Walmart purposely keeps most of their employees at 40 hours/week so they can't get benefits. Further, they promote all of those employees getting on all the government assistance they can. Yeah, nice favor, but how about sharing your load and letting those who want to work 40 hours work that and obtain the benefits they should be provided and off of government assistance. Walmart's low prices are the result of than government-funding which we cannot afford, which not only drains the taxes coming, but increases the national debt and causes inflation to rise.
We all pay for Walmart. The problem is that people won't say no. Not the lawmakers and not the masses who shop there.
I think Cisco has had their eyes on the Tandberg line for a long time, ever since their CallManager protocols were licensed to them and Video was taking off. While Cisco could make all their own gear, my guess is they need Tandberg's patents, which will also stifle any competition.
I couldn't agree more. I rarely contact TAC, and typically when I do it is due to a bug. Last bug I ran into was with their Botnet DNS and alias code in the ASA. Could not get TAC to continue working the issue without giving them my configs, which I cannot. I didn't have time to lab a clean config with the minimum portions to reproduce, and they won't carry the ball without. Worthless support.
Get more quotes. 3 is the minimum, ever. 5-6 is best. Whoever has "registered" you with Cisco first will have an additional discount that others may not have had (but others with gold or other status already have some discounts). Never lump parts with SmartNET or labor - get bids all 3 individually, or make sure you can line-item order.
It's probably identical equipment, just made on a third shift that is off the books using serial numbers from the first and second shifts and sold as "out of channel" for a discount.
Or, it may be equipment that is made totally identically (or leaving out "unnecessary" parts or using cheaper parts).
Worst case, it may be an operation backed by the Chinese government to get back doors into the hardware used in mission critical systems.
The original author's words would be cited and would not be plagiarism. Plagiarism is copying another work without citation and trying to pass it off as your own.
True, but not sure if and how the cable company would bill two modems at the same address. Unfortunately the address is probably always tied to the account and cannot allow for two accounts at the same address. Wouldn't hurt to look into it.
Well, there is the other side: my co-worker who needs both, isn't going to pay even $1,500 out of pocket, and only got one. I'm assuming he got the $3,000 model for the worst ear. We all know which side to stand on to talk to him.
I'm not sure if it is like eye insurance - where you get either one pair of glasses or contacts each year - so you get glasses this year, contacts the next, and alternate.
However, if it is, he'll just get the second hearing aid in a year or two.
I don't know what agreements you have in place, but if the Internet connection is in your name, then I would not allow anyone else to connect that you cannot trust.
If the Internet connection is in your troublesome roommate's name, I would get your own Internet connection. This may be difficult, but most places have at least 2-3 ISP options (DSL, Cable, Clear, etc.). It's too bad you probably can't get two public IPs for your connection and each have your own router for your devices behind it.
I think paying for your own Internet (or not having your roommate chip in or having to give them a discount for their share of the Internet you are not going to share) is more than worth it.
When (not if, it will happen eventually unless the laws are changed) your roommate ends up in court and should you somehow get named, your defense will be easy. You never connected to his Internet and have your own. Produce your bills as proof, and that's the end of the story for you.
I think the advice that someone else gave about keeping logs of where the connection went is a good idea at first thought - and I'm not lawyer - but that sounds kinda shady - you kept logs to prove it wasn't you? How do you prove there wasn't any editing or that you only ever used that one IP? Just sounds like you could have audit problems proving things since you would have access to the logging system. To have it be bulletproof, you need to have some third-party setting up that system without you having access to it.
Make it a game. That can get everyone on board. That and have something tangible as reward to do with the savings. Like trips, hell even pizza nights paid for being smart work.
Not a bad idea to do the reward thing. We do most of what you talk about. Where I live we have SmartMeters, but they have not yet given access to the data to customers yet. However, I now work for the local utility and can get my usage after I VPN to work and access the AMI system to see hourly usage.
Once they roll out customer access to the hourly usage then billing will be switching to Time of Use (ToU) billing as well. The irrigation/power utility is a not-for-profit, so the goal isn't to gauge customers, but to have the net costs of purchasing and maintaining the system be covered by the usage of customers. One way to save money is to have to buy less at peak times (by "shaving the peak"), so using ToU billing helps influence customers to shift their flexible usage (clothes, dishwasher, even pre-cooling/delayed-cooling with A/C) to cheaper times (basically non-business hours) or if they want to use at expensive times they can pay more for it.
Anyway, the point is that I can look at overall power usage and reward when it is the same or less than the previous year's month. Same with water usage as really the only variation is in shower usage. We have a dual-head shower in all three bathrooms, and one head is set to very low-flow, and the other to normal flow, with a real quick 90 degree twist of a dial to switch between. I can tell when the four kids are not using the low-flow for the bulk of the shower (you really only need the normal flow for initial wetting and rinsing at the end, and the low-flow is just so you feel comfortable and don't get cold in the winter). The water bill will jump $20-30 in those cases (we're metered and double-billed accordingly - once for water in and once for water going to the sewer system less our lawn usage).
One thing we have not done as of yet is to replace our dishwasher. The current model is hand-me-down from someone as the one in our home never worked and we just did them by hand. It's been giving us some fits anyway, so I'm going to start price shopping a new dishwasher and see if it makes sense to replace.
I don't need them, but at my job I heard from another guy who does need them that our work insurance will pay up to something like $3,000 for ONE hearing aid. Doesn't matter if you want to get two $1,500 units, that's not allowed, they only cover one hearing aid. How retarded is that? Especially when the guy likes to ride road bicycles everywhere. Insurance is going to pay a ton more if he gets hospitalized in a bicyclist vs. car accident when he misses some sounds that might have kept him more safe.
I've been at BART platforms during peak times. Having people blocking paths at the SF stations and trying to carry signs could cause a safety hazard, especially if tensions rise, add in non-peaceful protesters and/or antagonized travelers trying to get to work or get to home.
Just saying, "That's what police are for" angers me as a citizen who might need to use those resources. Have you ever had to call 911 and not have them show up for long periods of time? I've always been able to solve my own problems while waiting for the Police, but I want that resource to be there for my Wife and kids.
I don't do it for the carbon, I bike/bus to work because:
1. It's way cheaper: $41/mo for an unlimited bus pass vs. auto insurance (and however the costs break down to purchase a vehicle)
(We lost a vehicle due to a hit and run driver. Our insurance paid off the auto loan and a little more for our own pocket. We didn't replace the vehicle and just have one now.)
2. It's way more healthy. I've a desk job, and typically work 45-50 hours a week. Being able to bike all the way (4 miles one-way) to or from work a handful times per week is a great 25-30 minute workout. I've access to lockers and a shower at work and keep a handful of outfits at work (I mostly bike all the way home, not on the way in since exchanging clothing requires a car trip.
3. I can relax and watch 20 minutes of reading and/or a show on my Nook while riding the bus. I don't have to worry about other rude drivers - so my resulting stress level is reduced (instead of kept the same in increased).
I gave up $35K/year to stay local, but I also don't have a 3-4 hour daily commute to the Bay Area. The net result is that I actually earn more per hour use for "work" (commute time may not be productive for my employer, but it sure is a loss for me). I've got "admin time" which is like flex time - I can earn and then later use, which is nice as in the past year I haven't used a day of vacation time, but just been using "admin time" for my days off.
Clearly they need to show the reverse as well: I already own a bike and I'd have to buy a car.
Yes, each BART car has a wall-mounted phone which connects you to the BART police. I'm sure each loading platform has one more more of them as well (but I've never looked for them).
Each BART car has a wall-mounted phone which is connected to the BART Police. I've never looked for them, but I'm sure each platform area also has the same.
Each car also has a wall-mounted emergency phone connected to the BART Police. I've used it before and resulted in someone getting arrested at the next stop for smoking on the BART car. Yes, smoking, in the BART car, in a tunnel.
Stinks to have to deal with people who are too cheap to use software that follows published standards. Glad I don't have to, and just drop all packets from netblocks of all the top spamming countries like China, Russia, etc.
For now, you and your friends can all use IPv6 MTAs and bypass your ISPs' MTAs. Of course, both sides must speak IPv6.
I do that and per-site/per-person/per-list aliases which keep me mostly spam-free. The only regular spam I get is from my published GPG keys, and at least those all go to the same folder which I mostly ignore. If some site/person/list leaks my alias for them, I just bump it to a new one (if I plan to keep contact with them at all), and reject the old one at my MTA. Biggest problem is with public WHOIS listings, but like I said, I just change the alias each time it occurs, which now is rather infrequent (perhaps once a year).
The only time I ever had problem was with some guy involved in some housing credit fraud with mortgage loans decided to come after me for outing him to his employer and credit card companies he was using to scam with. All I did was include the IRC log where he was trying to get others in on his scam. Lesson learned: out the guy, but do it anonymously. I was able to block all the spam he caused me once I saw the lame pattern he was using to semi-randomize the destination aliases.
I'll gladly take my self-hosted solution over relying on Google or anyone else any day.
Because those in power were "bought" long ago.
When I bought my first house (650sq ft.) in a bad neighborhood (Police were always like, "why don't you move?"), but the folks in the 3-unit apartments on my court would have an RTO truck show up and bring in a big screen TV and couches and stuff, then 3-4 months later it'd show up again to take the stuff back. Over and over. Comcast truck was there all the time hooking people up as well (and probably putting blocks on the disconnect as well) as the box for the court was on my properly line.
Most of the teens all managed to have the latest shoes and jerseys too, and the adults all had smokes and alcohol.
It was a below poverty level living, but they didn't have it that bad. Let any of them win the lottery and they'd be back in the same place or worse in a year.
This was back when DSL first hit: I made a deal with some teens right next door - we'd trench over and lay a pipe for CAT5 and I'd share my Internet with them. I even worked out a deal with them to include a PC (low-end build from spare parts, but still, it worked just fine for the OS of the day). I don't remember the exact figures, but basically for the first 6 months they were mowing the lawn to pay me back for the pipe and PC parts, and after that I was paying them half the going rate for lawn maintenance (and they got Internet). All they had to do was mow the lawn once a week. I provided the lawn mower and gas. They just had to show up and spend 45 minutes mowing.
Guess how long that lasted? Yeah, needless to say they never paid off the PC parts, and sure never got paid for mowing (well, if you include the PC and couple months of lawn mowing, they made out).
Hindsight, I'd should have made them earn the piping and PC parts up front, once they had, then give it to them. Then go month to month on the Internet/mowing. Oh well, I bought a riding mower anyway (yeah, it was a big lawn, but I could mow it in 45 minutes with a push mower, or 10 with a riding mower).