After reading through all of the 0+ modded comments, I've seen everyone saying "God, I wish there was something that could be done to stop this from happening again". You want to see it stop? Find something that ties your local congressmen to their search histories on AOL. Contact them with that information. I can almost guarantee you that if you find enough dirt on enough congressmen/senators, you'll see legislation passed requiring that Search companies not keep records of searches. It quickly changes from "Think of the children" to "Think of saving my ass from dirt that can be used against me next election year"
They have arguable released personally identifiable information through these records as her searches are PII. Though, I believe that AOLs privacy policy requires you to contact them to opt out of any sharing of search queries and or data sharing.
Or how about an ISP that gives you a new, random IP address on request, and keeps NO LOGS of who had which IP in the past?
Its because the NSA and other members of the government alphabet soup have their noses inside all of the major telecoms servers. I know its imposibble in the UK because all ISPs are required to keep a log of its users, indefinatly. I think there is a similar law here in the states as well...
Though aren't they already heading in that direction? They've done away with paid subscriptions in favor of ad-based support. I can almost guarantee you that even if they were to start aiding feds in procecution, they wouldn't loose a single stereotypical subscriber. I mean, the normal AOL user doesn't care about these things. Hell, I bet half of em haven't even heard about this.
Perhaps she's taking the first step in filing a lawsuit against the company for violation of privacy? It wouldn't look very good for her if she kept her account and still chose to sue.
Exactly my point. Normally, I'm one of those people who are for the "Let them watch if you have nothing to hide", but searches show no motives, no intent, hell, it diddn't even have to be the owner of the account who made the search. I can't tell you how many times my AIM Accounts were cracked back in the day. Same with IPs, as the woman that won against the RIAA proved. IPs can be spoofed, computers can become bots. Just because it says you searched for it doesn't mean you actuially did. Sadly, it still won't stop the feds, though.
AOL will also allow IE users to install a free security toolbar when they download Active Virus Shield. The toolbar will include a real-time update on their computer's security status via Active Security Monitor, a password manager, pop-up blocker, and a link to the Whois domain registration database to find more information on potentially suspicious sites.
And here, boys and girls, we see yet another useless IE Toolbar. I wonder if the new AOL Security software detects itself as a threat to the system?
There are also many thousands of sexual queries, along with searches about "child porno" and "how to kill oneself by natural gas" that raise questions about what legal authorities can and should do with such information.
Now what kind of legal recourse can people expect from these search results? Can the man who searched for ways to kill his wife be tracked down? How about all of the paedophiles who searched for child pr0n? Oh, I can just see all of the "Come on AOL, think of the children...tell us who that was..." How closely tied are these numbers to the user's AOL Accounts, I mean, I'm sure AOL left themselves some tie to the user in their copy. What's stopping feds from making many major busts on people?
Where do you see Fedora in the near future? Do you see it as more of a server-oriented distro, or are you preparing to make it more user-friendly and desktop oriented?
News for nerds, or stuff that matters? I really don't think that an IPod umbrella is what us nerds need, as we're normally indoors anyways. I also highly doubt this is mission critical in a world sense. It must be a slow news day or/.'s datacenter increased their prices again...
Both are always calling some shady source to get information. One is looking to kill someone and bury them in a dark place, the other is looking to bury someone in a spotlight.
Think back to WWII. During that war we dropped two atom bombs on hundreds of thousands of innocent japaneese civillians. Before we dropped the bomb, we droped millions of leaflets to warn civillians to leave the area. Does this mean the US was wrong for ending the second world war too? If a country is making a good-faithed effort to warn civillians to get out of an area that is about to be attacked, it should be looked upon as humanatarian, as they could simply just start bombing the piss out of the same building with civillians in it, and would be just as justified in doing so.
Yes. We'll all be under control of the largest FAG in the world. What fun. Maybe now we'll get sexy parties at the ICANN meetings, and all tlds will come with a free feather boa and materials on Scientology.
I never said it would be an american sex item. I think this one would go on sale in the Canadian Market. I mean, the fleshlight already conquered the american male hand. As for women, who knows. But what woman has intercourse with a robot?
...robots accept us as their scroungy human overlords!
Wow, I just had to kill 2 birds with one stone.
Seriously, A french robot? Come on. Its for sale as a submissive sex partner isn't it? I mean, thats all the french seem to be good for anyways...the submissive part.
by this time next year every true slashdotter will have the implant in their brain and be using it full-time to post on slashdot. Gone will be RSS feeds and instead all the Slashvertisememts and FUD will be automatically implainted into your brain.
And I guess this is appropriate... in sovie..nah, thats too easy.
Slashdot Mirror
... find http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/06/13 3203this useful.
After reading through all of the 0+ modded comments, I've seen everyone saying "God, I wish there was something that could be done to stop this from happening again". You want to see it stop? Find something that ties your local congressmen to their search histories on AOL. Contact them with that information. I can almost guarantee you that if you find enough dirt on enough congressmen/senators, you'll see legislation passed requiring that Search companies not keep records of searches. It quickly changes from "Think of the children" to "Think of saving my ass from dirt that can be used against me next election year"
Who says its even that. For all we know, and AOL hasn't denied it, that these numbers could actuially BE their account number.
They have arguable released personally identifiable information through these records as her searches are PII. Though, I believe that AOLs privacy policy requires you to contact them to opt out of any sharing of search queries and or data sharing.
Though aren't they already heading in that direction? They've done away with paid subscriptions in favor of ad-based support. I can almost guarantee you that even if they were to start aiding feds in procecution, they wouldn't loose a single stereotypical subscriber. I mean, the normal AOL user doesn't care about these things. Hell, I bet half of em haven't even heard about this.
Perhaps she's taking the first step in filing a lawsuit against the company for violation of privacy? It wouldn't look very good for her if she kept her account and still chose to sue.
Exactly my point. Normally, I'm one of those people who are for the "Let them watch if you have nothing to hide", but searches show no motives, no intent, hell, it diddn't even have to be the owner of the account who made the search. I can't tell you how many times my AIM Accounts were cracked back in the day. Same with IPs, as the woman that won against the RIAA proved. IPs can be spoofed, computers can become bots. Just because it says you searched for it doesn't mean you actuially did. Sadly, it still won't stop the feds, though.
Now what kind of legal recourse can people expect from these search results? Can the man who searched for ways to kill his wife be tracked down? How about all of the paedophiles who searched for child pr0n? Oh, I can just see all of the "Come on AOL, think of the children...tell us who that was..." How closely tied are these numbers to the user's AOL Accounts, I mean, I'm sure AOL left themselves some tie to the user in their copy. What's stopping feds from making many major busts on people?
Where do you see Fedora in the near future? Do you see it as more of a server-oriented distro, or are you preparing to make it more user-friendly and desktop oriented?
I thought it was common knowledge that even at times of release, microsoft products aren't ready for consumers. What the fuck were you thinking?
News for nerds, or stuff that matters? I really don't think that an IPod umbrella is what us nerds need, as we're normally indoors anyways. I also highly doubt this is mission critical in a world sense. It must be a slow news day or /.'s datacenter increased their prices again...
All our base belong to them!
But seriously folks, how did it backfire if we're all laughing?
Both are always calling some shady source to get information. One is looking to kill someone and bury them in a dark place, the other is looking to bury someone in a spotlight.
Think back to WWII. During that war we dropped two atom bombs on hundreds of thousands of innocent japaneese civillians. Before we dropped the bomb, we droped millions of leaflets to warn civillians to leave the area. Does this mean the US was wrong for ending the second world war too? If a country is making a good-faithed effort to warn civillians to get out of an area that is about to be attacked, it should be looked upon as humanatarian, as they could simply just start bombing the piss out of the same building with civillians in it, and would be just as justified in doing so.
...a help-desk job for every child! Wait, they have that already!
Yes. We'll all be under control of the largest FAG in the world. What fun. Maybe now we'll get sexy parties at the ICANN meetings, and all tlds will come with a free feather boa and materials on Scientology.
I never said it would be an american sex item. I think this one would go on sale in the Canadian Market. I mean, the fleshlight already conquered the american male hand. As for women, who knows. But what woman has intercourse with a robot?
Wow, I just had to kill 2 birds with one stone.
Seriously, A french robot? Come on. Its for sale as a submissive sex partner isn't it? I mean, thats all the french seem to be good for anyways...the submissive part.
So, oss malware? Is it free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-speech malware? Do I still need to accept an EULA to infect my friend's PCs or is it all GNU'D?
And I guess this is appropriate... in sovie..nah, thats too easy.
No, I'd assume not. However, i've also found aMSN to be very unreliable. Kopete is the better choice for video chats.
I don't know... i know theres this one called the internet... ...thats the pr0n one.