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- CatfishJones, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Why are you people so ignorant?!?!?!
Privacy advocates may or may not have something to hide, that is NOT the point. The point is that the government has no business knowing its people's personal business without a warrant provided with judicial oversight. For *****'s sake, get your head out of your ass and realize that your government does not have your best interests at heart.
Do not attack people who fault your government, they are your last line of defense. Treat them with respect. They are braver than you.
Please excuse the swearing and excessive punctuation. I'm pissed off. I've had it with these sheep. Please wake up America. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Sounds like a good guy to me :) You need to remember that the internet is for porn.
- dan537, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22Once George W. finds out about this I'm sure they will make it illegal to protect your searches. We need to fight terrorism after all.
- crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13digg users submit content from the internet... the content is added to the huge queue (usually around 3K-4K articles at any given time). Then if people find this article and like it, they digg it. Based on a somewhat obscure algorithm, the "popular" articles will then make the front page. And voila... next thing you know Kevin Rose is worth $60 mil.
- cheezerman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I find it pretty ironic that I had to reject not one, but TWO tracking cookies to get to the link!
- malkir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm gonna throw my 2 cents out there, you can do whatever you like with it.
Privacy advocates fulfill a need in any country. If we don't have anyone advocating for privacy then sooner or later any government, no matter how well intentioned, will put surveillance equipment everywhere; including your home. Privacy will no longer exist.
This will occur to 'Fight Terrorism' or to 'Protect the Children' or to 'Fight the Communist threat'. People will not even question whether these methods will actually be effective in stopping any of these threats, they will just slowly let their rights erode away for 'The Common Good'. This erosion of rights has happened throughout history in many countries, and yet people still don't pay attention to it.
Once this erosion has occurred it will not be long before corrupt government officials use it against innocent people for their own gain. The entire purpose of our system of checks and balances is to stop this type of corruption from gaining a foot-hold in our government. Without privacy the government no longer need fear it's people, because it knows everything that the people are doing. This fear of the people is the ULTIMATE balance against the government and is the ONLY reason our government doesn't cross certain lines that other governments do cross. It is also the sole reason that in our constitution we have the right to bear arms.
In my opinion anyone that is willing to give up their privacy rights is ignorant of history, of how the real world works, and has a certain naivety about how corruptible people actually are. - gorilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You don't know what ASSPARADE is!?
- crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"popular" articles will then make the front page. And voila... next thing you know Kevin Rose is worth $60 mil.
(also, make your comment edits very quick... ;) ) - apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well its kinda like you say.... "as long as we are not hurting others"... how is it that gov people looking at your search records (who really probably could care less about you) hurting you? Its not, but yea if they use it to hurt you... say you get sued for something and a lawyer against you gets these results... they should not be allowed as any sort of evidence, or even allowed to be showed in court.
- gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This search paranoia is completely anything needing a warrant.
If you go to amazon and surf and buy junk, then suddenly it wants to offer you products that are related to what you bought previously, that cool IMHO. Now its sort of yucky if your looking for books about cancer because a friend or loved ones has cancer and it wants to sell your more cancer books at a later date. But Bezos does now (since they had some people have issues with AIDS suggestions) roll over or not upset certain content.
I wish my grocery store just had everything I normally buy in the first isle right by the cash register so I could go in and get the hell out. If they want to pre-bag it for me thats cool too.
As far as google goes, don't like it don't ask someone to search for you on your behalf.
If you don't want someone to know what your doing, don't ask people for guidance or assistance. Google uses the information as best as can be expected. Look at people that have very little issues with it (issues that only have limits by law) such as credit, health, insurence, etc.
Damn, I can imagine people that are 'big privacy' people being upset that tivo wishlist works. Obviously they need to know what your watching, what you like to suggest better stuff to you. - ganlet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am a big privacy person, even though often times its fighting a losing battle.
I think we have the right to do or believe whatever we'd like, as long as we are not hurting others. If we are hurting others then we give up our privacy and getting a warrent should be a piece of cake.
search records should be covered under same laws and stuff in ones home (i know never gonna happen) - tthomas1529, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3does nobody understand? it's not what you search for or what you have to hide. in the simplest terms possible. us citizens are guaranteed the right to privacy!
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. - spurandthedeb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, no, these guys have got it all wrong. What you do is you throw people off by searching for random things inbetween the things you really want to search for. Also, make people think it's not really you by entering things like "I AM NOT STEPHEN COLBERT" into Google.
- ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3digg what you like
- ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.hidemyass.com is another good web proxy which isn't on their list.
- brianmost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Laugh as you may, that's about all I found on FreeNet when I looked... kiddie porn, nazi materials, bomb guides, warez, and the occasional "this is my private journal" with only 2-3 entries.
- talledega500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess youve never heard of anyone fired from their job for internet use outside the incredibly arbitrary boundaries set by employers.
Everyone gets away with it until someone has a vendetta on someone and targets YOU and calls IT security to check up on your usage as a pretext to fire you. It happens all the time.
And besides noone wants to be AOL User #Anything.
Its not about hiding its about preventing prying eyes who themselves may be breaking the law or their own terms of service in the process of spying on you.
Try http://www.blackboxsearch.com
Its mentioned in the digged article. - radarx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use Portable Firefox on a password protected USB thumbdrive and I've disabled all history. Passwords managed by Firefox with ANOTHER password. Not bulletproof, but very close. If I really want to get private, I fire up PuTTy and tunnel to my home machine.
- tthomas1529, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and that's why this it's a good idea to use a proxy. your data is yours to keep. no worries about who's looking, no aol "oops my bad" leaks.
- gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So you have a 'Grease Monkey: user-script' that after clicking the 'Google Search' button you 'Clear All Private Data'. So you only send google a cookie for each individual search.
Do you also send them other fake searches in the background to confuse them as well so they don't know you were just trying to do your homework or find out where to download something.
Watch out for that floride. - kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3If you like a comment you can 'digg it up' or if you don't like it you can 'digg it down'. All the stories you 'digg' are saved under your profile. So you can refer back to them later if you like. But the best advice I can give you is to turn back now and SAVE YOURSELF. Digging is dangerous and powerfully addictive. Carpal tunnel is only a 1000 dugg stories or so away.
(If you do make it back to the outside...send help) - buzzmanfly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I found out about this when I went into my Google account preferences and found my entire search history. You can disable the save search history feature.
- tthomas1529, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"The only people concerned about protecting their searches are the people with something to hide."
So, would you mind if those in power decided to go through your mail, or enter your home and search your closets? as long as you have nothing to hide what's the problem? - Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and who says that they still don't have your history? You just can't see it, but they still have it.
As for the Firefox extension to anonymise you. I'm sure that they still know who you are (seeing as Firefox seems to be "Google's browser") and they can get around it.
and for the people who dugg me down due to my "pedophiles rejoice" comment. Makes me wonder what all you people are hiding. You think a pedophile, or someone looking to make a bomb or visiting terrorism sites and ***** like that deserve privacy??
I wonder about the digg community at times. Kind of scary. - 662662, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Goes well with http://digg.com/security/Anonymous_Browsing_Tutorial
- kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I sometimes wonder which is scarier, the Internet or the people 'searching' the Internet.
- wastednightmare, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Meet User 7777155 every1!! ^^
- Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1exactly
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1+1 for CatfishJones
- critic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I dunno, I'm starting to search for Assparade just to get their adrenelin going.
I figure if enough of us start doing it, we'll draw the bastards out and finally have a public debate about it.
I don't like living in fear. - roosterjm2k2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Heres how it works folks.
Google is a private company. You are hitting their server. You have no privacy rights, anything google does with the data that you computer sends them is up to them. Luckily, they dont do much with it other than target advertising. Privacy freaks make me laugh...put your tin-foil cap back on and go on along.
Really though, your sending information to a company...what they do or don't do with that information is their business, not yours. - growler1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Just use firefox and the 'customize google' extension...you can set it to anonymize your sessions...
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/743/ - xmilky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Google makes it quite fiddly to go without cookies. The Gmail login always redirects over //www.google.com/, and thus requires to reenable cookies and delete them after you've logged in. (Ok, it happens rarely that you're logged off from Gmail, but then this is an issue). Else, browsing with cookies off per default is really easy, when reenabling is just two clicks away.
For obfuscating my searches (tried to use Yahoo and others instead, but hey, bad habits..), I'm using http://freshmeat.net/p/crapsearch for a few days now (there's nothing like a TrackMeNot plugin for Opera yet). - chandamb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0what if u r using a proxy server?? will they be able to pinpoint the machine??
- KenBlankenship, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2If you worry about anyone finding out what you search for, I think you might have more pressing concerns to think about. I dont think you're going to jail any time soon if you search for porn. How to kill your wife, perhaps...
- brianmost, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4For Christ's sakes - can we have just one digg article without "lol *****" or "lol Blue State" comments? This is honestly making me long for the old days of BSD vs Linux license wars.
- crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4User 7777155 searched for 1974 Silverado truck parts, Sportsline, and Yahoo fantasy baseball. Sounds like a nice guy, eh? Maybe - he also searched for "free MILF hunter password", "you knw when your a mexican when" jokes, and something called "assparade."
- enjourni, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Privacy is an illusion, and not worth protecting (unless you're talking about identity theft). All it means is that more businesses will know stuff about you, and probably send you more spam and offers for stuff. The government knows everything about you anyway. So I really don't understand why this is such a big deal for people.
If you're doing something anonymously, you might want to ask yourself why you need to keep it anonymous. If the answer is shame in whatever you're doing, then it may be something you'd consider not doing. (Protect your integrity.) - Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Pedophiles rejoice!
- miketest, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3Can anyone lemme know what this website is all about? What is meant by digging a story?
Advice please - apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2So freakin true.... what do you privacy freaks keep hidden? What is it that the NSA wants from your search results? Try getting over yourself... then you'll realize that you aren't important to the NSA and they don't want YOUR search data.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+4Alternately, you should stop searching for horse porn and directions on how to build bombs.
I'd love to see what dark dirty secrets these "Privacy Advocates" want to keep buried. I bet most of them have kiddie porn collections on their laptops. - kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2The only people concerned about protecting their searches are the people with something to hide. So stop looking at midget porn already.
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