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Re: We knew this already... good luck tracking me. Most of the time i posted by borrowing wifi. Usernames are on most boards are different. In reality tracking me is hard. |
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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kudos:5 | said by silentlooker:good luck tracking me. Most of the time i posted by borrowing wifi. Usernames are on most boards are different. In reality tracking me is hard. In reality, you're not that interesting.      (j/k)
Seriously, though, few of us are really "worth" tracking (and I don't include myself among them). Unfortunately, the cost to track us and store information about us is dropping like a rock and approaches zero relatively quickly. Even though I could find out that you were searching about how to make a Mentos and Diet Coke bomb when you were a teenager, would that even be relevant?
I really hope Karl is wrong here. If he's not, we're going to have to rethink what we do with this storehouse of "knowledge." (scare quotes intended)
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| I think it all becomes immeasurably less spooky if what's being collected is entirely transparent, consumers are given the tools they need to manage their online identities, and we have effective regulatory protections in place for abuse.
Just in case I gave the impression I'm entirely defeatist on the issue. |
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Lion84
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What is more of a problem is if someone could come along and "create" data that appears "official" and then that could be used against you. Similar to a TSA agent slipping a little "something" into a bag just to make someone's day interesting (which if memory serves actually happened at the Philadelphia airport earlier this year). |
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I like your attitude, everyone else who just "let's" there Constitutional Rights sink down the drain sickens me!!!! Land of the Free - ha! What a bunch of Fuck'n BullShit - I blame the people for being slackers and truly being Un-American!!! This nation is too celebrity-driven, narcissistic, hysterical, xenophobic FUCKERS!!!!! TV is also to blame, it has insulated the masses to such a degree, that as a nation we just ignore all that is repulsive. Therefore, I ask you, how do you truly make informed decisions when you only get part of the story? The FCC in its recent secret meetings with big Verizon, AT&T, Google, etc,. Not to mention world events, Israel/Palestine conflict, we're to cozy with Israel, and as such we only get a one way story! That's a fact!!! |
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| Damn, man. That was impressive how you turned that into a rant about Israel. Well done. |
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said by Karl Bode: and we have effective regulatory protections in place for abuse. I hope this was sarcasm at its finest, otherwise I'd have to take issue with this statement!
The time to unplug is is exponentially coming closer
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i agree.what does israel have to do with this post anyways
1984 is coming on fast. |
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said by silentlooker:good luck tracking me. Most of the time i posted by borrowing wifi. Usernames are on most boards are different. In reality tracking me is hard. When they sold your computer to you, they had the MAC address in their database. Did you link your name to that purchase in ANY way?
Well, your MAC address is transmitted through air in the wifi connection. That's where it stops and goes via IPv4 without your MAC address in it (although a recent article mentioned IPv6 may be different in that it can include the MAC address even if you're a passer-by.
So why would you fear your MAC address when it stops transmission at the wifi router? Two things: (1) if a sniffer is local, they could see you. But more pressing is #2: (2) actually, the wifi router may send your MAC address out across the Internet anyway. It might happen as an informational packet, a BOOTP/DHCP packet, a logging packet, a tracking packet, or something else of the sort.
Add that to correlative data mining from things like your browser identity, viruses, hidden programs, etc., and you might be surprised to find that your information does leak out occasionally. The same correlative data mining will be able to assign you to your MAC address to some degree (a strong degree), eventually, if you ever reveal it somehow. The only question remains, is it enough to be a threat? |
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funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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kudos:5 | said by Ulmo:The same correlative data mining will be able to assign you to your MAC address to some degree (a strong degree), eventually, if you ever reveal it somehow. The only question remains, is it enough to be a threat? Google collected my MAC address at least six months ago. Because of that, Twitter thinks I'm still in a different state. Lesson: even though they've got your data, it doesn't mean it's correct.
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