And significantly, you may not care whether or not Uncle Sam (or any other government) can read your online commmunications, but I explicitly care when my competition just has to make a little campaign contribution and my email's appear on his desk... THAT is a scenario that I can envision and makes me just a leetle pyronoid:)
The problem with that approach is that it isn't just what you write, it is what you see, what you read, where you go, who you send email to, who you get email from... all of these things are trackable... perhaps not nearly in real time... but look at it as a method of collecting points like messages here collect points... you and your activity collect enough points, and they may just assign a live body and some serious compute time to you... I am not at all sure that in such cases governments wouldn't feel extreme measures to be justified (at least they would seem "extreme" to me)... sigh - there really isn't much to stop these things, methinks...
One machiavellian scheme gets exposed, and soon a new "black" project is started - these things don't die, they just morph - the trick is to live under the rader and stay out of the way when the fecal matter hits the spinning blades:)
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And significantly, you may not care whether or not Uncle Sam (or any other government) can read your online commmunications, but I explicitly care when my competition just has to make a little campaign contribution and my email's appear on his desk... THAT is a scenario that I can envision and makes me just a leetle pyronoid :)
Shandon
The problem with that approach is that it isn't just what you write, it is what you see, what you read, where you go, who you send email to, who you get email from... all of these things are trackable... perhaps not nearly in real time... but look at it as a method of collecting points like messages here collect points... you and your activity collect enough points, and they may just assign a live body and some serious compute time to you... I am not at all sure that in such cases governments wouldn't feel extreme measures to be justified (at least they would seem "extreme" to me)... sigh - there really isn't much to stop these things, methinks...
:)
One machiavellian scheme gets exposed, and soon a new "black" project is started - these things don't die, they just morph - the trick is to live under the rader and stay out of the way when the fecal matter hits the spinning blades
Shandon