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On 5/31/06, Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca> wrote: |
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> 060531 JimD wrote: |
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> > I just found out something about Google Groups. |
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> > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user |
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> > Go to the link above on Google, click on any topic. |
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> > At the top of the topic you will see the From: line. |
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> > At the end there is a link named "View Profile". Click on that. |
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> > Google shows a list of every group it finds your email in |
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> > and displays it in a drop down. |
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> They are presumably public lists, so CAVEAT SCRIPTOR . |
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There are copies over Gmane and most mailing lists have a news format, |
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along with digests, so, its kinda easy to track you down. Even google |
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crawler would come up with links in Gmane and other mail-to-news |
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sites. |
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> It's like sending a letter to a newspaper: they might print it ! |
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> OTOH the Internet does allow anyone to collect vast amounts of information, |
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> but OTOH it's far too much for any realistic use malign or otherwise. |
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> It's like the US govt collecting a record of everyone's phone calls: |
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> however could they ever analyse them ? The rest of us laugh at them |
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> (yes, someone in a bunker in Colorado may be reading this very message |
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> & our peaceful, ordered & well-governed country may be targetted (grin)). |
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Today you must be careful with what you send. Google is not the only |
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one providing personal information over the net, it just indexes it |
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and make it searchable. I just googled my name and found my own ID |
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number (here at brazil, its comparable with US Social Security number) |
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published along with my complete profile in a government site where 4 |
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years ago I did tests for a public position. |
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Privacy is measured by how much you care about it, if you think VERY |
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WELL it simply do not exist. |
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