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Comment by Central Scrutinizer on March 27, 2018 at 6:30pm

MICROSOFT TO BAN ‘OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE’ & MONITOR YOUR PRIVATE AC...

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on May 10, 2017 at 1:15pm

New browser out, designed right this time (personal opinion) called

Lunascape6, luvvin the hell out of this one ;)

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5925-lunascape.html

Comment by Tara on February 26, 2015 at 10:45am

Watch Net Neutrality Voting live

http://www.c-span.org/video/?324473-1/fcc-meeting-net-neutrality

Live Now

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on March 24, 2013 at 1:43pm

Wireless Mesh Networks – The Internet Censorship Solution

Fabulous must see video! James Corbett again brilliantly nails the ongoing internet "war of attrition" by our would-be controllers. More than that, he introduces our ultimate solution to their clampdown - a decentralized pirate internet via "mesh networks"!

Get ready, folks, it's about to come to that, same story as in all fascist clampdowns. They can't stamp us out as hard as these bastards try. Listen and learn and start getting hooked up. Keep on!

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on February 2, 2013 at 6:06pm

TWITTER: 250k accounts hacked

Comment by Friday Woodlans-Sprite on January 3, 2013 at 6:49pm

anyone who invokes god needs to learn.

Comment by truth on December 6, 2012 at 11:46am

U.N. Report Reveals International Protocol for Tracking People Online

The document outlines the stages law enforcement agencies should go through when conducting electronic surveillance of suspects: first, by obtaining data and “cookies” stored by websites like Facebook, Google, eBay and Paypal; second, by obtaining location data from servers used by VoIP Internet phone services (like Skype); then, by conducting a “smart analysis” of these data before moving on to the most serious and controversial step: intercepting communications, exploiting security vulnerabilities in communications technologies for “intelligence-gathering purposes,” and even infecting a target computer with Trojan-horse spyware to mine data.

Comment by Tula on December 1, 2012 at 11:47am

Alex Jones Connected To Stratfor/Israel CIA Front

Comment by Nathan on November 27, 2012 at 3:41pm

Orin Kerr was on the Kojo Nnamdi show (on DC’s NPR station, 88.5 WAMU) this morning ... with Julian Sanchez and Julia Angwin. It’s a one-hour program that was inspired by the Petraeus investigation but turned to many of the broader issues of online investigations and privacy.

You can listen here:

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/audio-player?nid=22494

Comment by Nathan on November 21, 2012 at 8:21am

Last week, we posted a list of open questions about how voters’ personal information was used in the 2012 presidential election (and how it’ll be used now that the election’s over). We posted the questions on our blog and on the social news site Reddit, and lo and behold, someone from the Obama campaign’s data mining team answered!

Although he wasn’t in charge of the data mining operations, his answers still give some insight into how personal information drove the campaign. We found it especially unsettling to see how much detailed Facebook data is up for sale for marketing, regardless of whether you’ve set your Facebook account to be more private (see his answer to question 4).

We’re posting our questions and his answers below (note that we haven’t edited his answers at all, except to format their numbering):

1. Abine: How detailed did the profiles that the campaign built up about people get? Like, was it “category of single guys in OH who like microbrews,” or “John Smith in OH who hasn’t had a girlfriend in 3 years and always drinks Dogfishhead?” Bonus: can we see a (redacted) real profile?

Campaign Employee: “I wasn’t high enough to get end results, but I saw some of the print outs upstairs… They know everything Google and FB know about you, pretty much. They know what music you like, which Harry Potter book is your favorite, your voting habits, etc. It’s all in databases, you’re just a number in a DB with a name attached.” 

2. Abine: It sounds like databases have become a valuable asset in a growing number of campaigns. Is there anything stopping, say, the losing party who’s in campaign debt and has to answer to creditors from selling the data to marketers and other third parties to help fulfill that debt?

Campaign Employee: “Again, I’m not the person to talk to about that, didn’t even think to ask that. I AM in advertising with a focus on DB marketing though and it depends on the conditions on which they got your data and what they agreed to in the process.”

3. Abine: Let’s talk about online tracking. Advertisers always argue that the data they collect doesn’t pose any privacy problems because it’s aggregated and “de-personalized,” while researchers say there’s no such thing as truly anonymous tracking. Given your experience, who’s closer to the truth?

Campaign Employee: “I’ve worked on advertising campaigns before. I can tell you that as long as the databases aren’t leaked, you’re fairly safe. They will have your name, CCN, SSN etc. but most of that is only used to match personally identifiable information to you (matching your Amazon spending habits to your FB “likes” for example). In other words, the latter, but it’s happened since the first targeted print ads. Magazines and newspapers have collected similar data without you knowing for decades.”

https://www.abine.com/blog/2012/update-answers-from-an-obama-campai...

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