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    The one I use is called VyprVPN and is made by a company called
    golden frog.  It's a little more expensive, starting at $14.99 a
    month.  I get it free through another service I subscribe to
    (Giganews - for reading Usenet).  There are others out there, but I
    don't know how good they are.  Here is a review site I found:
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vpnreviews.com/">http://www.vpnreviews.com/</a>  Google "private vpn reviews" for more.<br>
    <br>
    Paul<br>
    <br>
    On 05/23/2012 05:24 PM, Art Deco wrote:
    <blockquote
cite="mid:CAB8VJX48ykRFJ08R7mfQG6ym+EF=CFJ2rC52Q=Z286Z+2sZfLA@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">Good advice.  Do you have any recommendations for a
      VPN provider?<br>
      <br>
      w.<br>
      <br>
      <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Paul
        Rumelhart <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>></span>
        wrote:<br>
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              <div><span>I recommend using a private VPN service for
                  this reason among others.  The VPN (virtual private
                  network) encrypts the connection between your computer
                  and the rest of the internet, so nobody without a
                  spare supercomputer will be reading your emails or
                  seeing what web pages you go to.  It can also help
                  keep ISPs from doing deep packet inspection, which
                  some ISPs use to vary your data speeds if you use bit
                  torrent or if you are using a competitors video
                  stream.  I don't know if any local ISPs do that, but
                  better safe than sorry.  It can also help keep
                  advertisers from getting a bead on where you are
                  geographically, which can foil their attempts to
                  figure out what you search for and what sort of stuff
                  you like to buy online.<br>
                </span></div>
              <div><br>
                <span></span></div>
              <div><span>The downside is that you have to pay for them
                  (a small monthly fee) and they can be slow if you use
                  the wrong private VPN provider.  You can mitigate this
                  by only activating the VPN when you are worried about
                  privacy (such as downloading email or browsing the
                  web) and leave it off for when you play World of
                  Warcraft.</span></div>
              <div><br>
                <span></span></div>
              <div><span>I have nothing against the police getting this
                  information, provided they get a warrant from a
                  judge.  Why make it easy for them?  The real reason I
                  use it, though, it to prevent others from intercepting
                  my communications either locally or somewhere between
                  me and the endpoint I'm going to.  I don't like what
                  advertisers and other large companies are doing with
                  what they know about each of us, so I fight against
                  this.  I also recommend browsing the web with Firefox
                  with AdBlock and NoScript extensions.  <br>
                </span></div>
              <div><br>
                <span></span></div>
              <div><span>Paul<br>
                </span></div>
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                      <div class="im"> <b><span
                            style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b>
                        Art Deco <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com"
                          target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a>><br>
                        <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
                        <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"
                          target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a> <br>
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                      <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
                      Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:30 PM
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                        <div class="h5"><br>
                          <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
                          Re: [Vision2020] Are the police tracking your
                          calls?<br>
                        </div>
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                    <div class="h5"> <br>
                      <div>A closer to home issue is whose emails,
                        texts, twitters, etc are the various local law
                        enforcement agencies tracking on the internet
                        without warrants, and which ISPs are
                        allowing/abetting them by cooperating.<br>
                        <br>
                        w.<br>
                        <br>
                        <div>On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Donovan
                          Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a
                              moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
                              href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com"
                              target="_blank">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>></span>
                          wrote:<br>
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                                <div><span>Their new symbol should be
                                    the same eagle being stripped
                                    searched of all its feathers and
                                    another guy confiscating and making
                                    a copy of the key it is clutching so
                                    tightly, every time it tries to make
                                    another flight.</span></div>
                                <div><span></span> </div>
                                <div><span>Donovan J. Arnold</span></div>
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                                        <b><span
                                            style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">From:</span></b>
                                        Ron Force <<a
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                                          rel="nofollow"
                                          href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com"
                                          target="_blank">rforce2003@yahoo.com</a>><br>
                                        <b><span
                                            style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">To:</span></b>
                                        Donovan Arnold <<a
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          rel="nofollow"
                                          href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com"
                                          target="_blank">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>>;
                                        Art Deco <<a
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          rel="nofollow"
                                          href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com"
                                          target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a>>;
                                        "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          rel="nofollow"
                                          href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"
                                          target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>"
                                        <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          rel="nofollow"
                                          href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"
                                          target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>>
                                        <br>
                                        <b><span
                                            style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Sent:</span></b>
                                        Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:52 AM
                                        <div><br>
                                          <b><span
                                              style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Subject:</span></b>
                                          Re: [Vision2020] Are the
                                          police tracking your calls?<br>
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                                            <div><span>These are the
                                                guys intercepting
                                                international calls (and
                                                some say, all calls).</span></div>
                                            <div><span><a
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nsa.gov/" target="_blank">http://www.nsa.gov/</a><br>
                                              </span></div>
                                            <div> </div>
                                            <div>Ron ForceMoscow Idaho
                                              USA<br>
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                                                      <b><span
                                                          style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">From:</span></b>
                                                      Donovan Arnold
                                                      <<a
                                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                        rel="nofollow"
                                                        href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com"
                                                        target="_blank">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>><br>
                                                      <b><span
                                                          style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">To:</span></b>
                                                      Art Deco <<a
                                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                        rel="nofollow"
                                                        href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com"
                                                        target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a>>;
                                                      "<a
                                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                        rel="nofollow"
                                                        href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"
                                                        target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>"
                                                      <<a
                                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                        rel="nofollow"
                                                        href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"
                                                        target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>>
                                                      <br>
                                                      <b><span
                                                          style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Sent:</span></b>
                                                      Tuesday, May 22,
                                                      2012 8:35 PM<br>
                                                      <b><span
                                                          style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Subject:</span></b>
                                                      Re: [Vision2020]
                                                      Are the police
                                                      tracking your
                                                      calls?<br>
                                                    </font></div>
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                                                        <div><span>I
                                                          don't think
                                                          the local
                                                          police do <span>tht</span>
                                                          much<var></var>.
                                                          But I think it
                                                          is evidently
                                                          clear the FBI
                                                          and CIA do
                                                          with
                                                          international
                                                          calls. They
                                                          have hardware
                                                          that listens
                                                          to cell phone
                                                          conversations
                                                          over the
                                                          airwaves
                                                          looking for
                                                          key words and
                                                          phrases like
                                                          your voice <span><span>recognition</span></span>
                                                          software on
                                                          your android.
                                                          It isn't
                                                          possible for
                                                          the police to
                                                          track every
                                                          conversation,
                                                          not to mention
                                                          it would be
                                                          boring and <span><span>extremely</span></span>
                                                          expensive
                                                          unless you
                                                          were a suspect
                                                          in a crime. </span></div>
                                                        <div><span></span> </div>
                                                        <div><span>I am
                                                          more concerned
                                                          about <span><span>Google</span></span>.
                                                          They control
                                                          phones, <span><span>Internet</span></span>
                                                          searches,
                                                          emails,
                                                          personal
                                                          passwords,
                                                          credit and
                                                          financial
                                                          information,
                                                          soon even your
                                                          car, and do
                                                          not have the
                                                          same
                                                          restrictions
                                                          on the use of
                                                          them that law
                                                          enforcement
                                                          and the
                                                          government
                                                          have. You
                                                          legally
                                                          consent to
                                                          giving them
                                                          that
                                                          information
                                                          when you use
                                                          their
                                                          software, just
                                                          like you
                                                          legally
                                                          consent to a
                                                          strip search
                                                          when you enter
                                                          an airport. </span></div>
                                                        <div><span></span> </div>
                                                        <div> </div>
                                                        <div><span>Donovan
                                                          J. Arnold</span></div>
                                                        <div><span></span> </div>
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                                                          <b><span
                                                          style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">From:</span></b>
                                                          Art Deco <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
                                                          href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com"
target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a>><br>
                                                          <b><span
                                                          style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">To:</span></b>
                                                          <a
                                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                          rel="nofollow"
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>
                                                          <br>
                                                          <b><span
                                                          style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Sent:</span></b>
                                                          Tuesday, May
                                                          22, 2012 4:29
                                                          PM<br>
                                                          <b><span
                                                          style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Subject:</span></b>
                                                          [Vision2020]
                                                          Are the police
                                                          tracking your
                                                          calls?<br>
                                                          </font></div>
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                                                          <div><font
                                                          size="6"><b>Are
                                                          the police
                                                          tracking your
                                                          calls? </b></font></div>
                                                          <div>By
                                                          Catherine
                                                          Crump ,
                                                          Special to CNN</div>
                                                          <div>updated
                                                          3:23 PM EDT,
                                                          Tue May 22,
                                                          2012</div>
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                                                          <div>CNN.com</div>
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                                                          <div>Are the
                                                          police
                                                          tracking your
                                                          calls?</div>
                                                          <div>
                                                          <div><img
                                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                          src=""
                                                          alt="Whom you
                                                          text and call
                                                          and where you
                                                          go can reveal
                                                          a great deal
                                                          about you,
                                                          says Catherine
                                                          Crump."></div>
                                                          <div>Whom you
                                                          text and call
                                                          and where you
                                                          go can reveal
                                                          a great deal
                                                          about you,
                                                          says Catherine
                                                          Crump.</div>
                                                          <div><span><span>Editor's
                                                          note:</span>
                                                          Catherine
                                                          Crump is a
                                                          staff attorney
                                                          with the
                                                          American Civil
                                                          Liberties
                                                          Union's
                                                          Speech,
                                                          Privacy and
                                                          Technology
                                                          Project.</span>
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                                                          <div><span>(CNN)</span>
                                                          -- Do you know
                                                          how long your
                                                          cell phone
                                                          company keeps
                                                          records of
                                                          whom you text,
                                                          who calls you
                                                          or what places
                                                          you have
                                                          traveled? Do
                                                          you know how
                                                          often cell
                                                          phone
                                                          companies turn
                                                          over this
                                                          information to
                                                          the police and
                                                          whether they
                                                          first ask the
                                                          police to get
                                                          a warrant
                                                          based on
                                                          probable
                                                          cause?</div>
                                                          <div>No, you
                                                          don't. Not
                                                          unless you
                                                          work for a
                                                          cell phone
                                                          company or a
                                                          law
                                                          enforcement
                                                          agency with a
                                                          specialty in
                                                          electronic
                                                          surveillance.
                                                          You aren't
                                                          alone:
                                                          Congress and
                                                          the courts
                                                          have no idea
                                                          either.</div>
                                                          <div>The
                                                          little we do
                                                          know is
                                                          worrisome. The
                                                          companies are
                                                          not legally
                                                          required to
                                                          turn over your
                                                          information
                                                          simply because
                                                          a police
                                                          officer is
                                                          curious about
                                                          you. Yet
                                                          wireless
                                                          carriers sell
                                                          this
                                                          information to
                                                          police all the
                                                          time.</div>
                                                          <div>As far as
                                                          the cell phone
                                                          companies are
                                                          concerned, the
                                                          less Americans
                                                          know about it
                                                          the better.</div>
                                                          <div>Whom you
                                                          text and call
                                                          and where you
                                                          go (tracked by
                                                          your cell
                                                          phone as long
                                                          as it's on)
                                                          can reveal a
                                                          great deal
                                                          about you.
                                                          Your calling
                                                          patterns can
                                                          show which
                                                          friends matter
                                                          to you the
                                                          most, and your
                                                          travel
                                                          patterns can
                                                          reveal what
                                                          political and
                                                          religious
                                                          meetings you
                                                          attend and
                                                          what doctors
                                                          you visit.
                                                          Over time,
                                                          this data
                                                          accumulates
                                                          into a dossier
                                                          portraying
                                                          details of
                                                          your life so
                                                          intimate that
                                                          you may not
                                                          have thought
                                                          of them
                                                          yourself. In
                                                          comparison
                                                          with companies
                                                          such as <span><span>Facebook</span></span>
                                                          and <span><span>Google</span></span>,
                                                          which collect,
                                                          store and use
                                                          our
                                                          information in
                                                          one way or
                                                          another, cell
                                                          phone
                                                          companies are
                                                          less
                                                          transparent.</div>
                                                          <div>U.S. Rep.
                                                          Edward <span><span>Markey</span></span>,
                                                          co-chairman of
                                                          the
                                                          Congressional
                                                          Bipartisan
                                                          Privacy
                                                          Caucus,
                                                          recently
                                                          requested that
                                                          cell phone
                                                          companies
                                                          disclose basic
                                                          statistics on
                                                          how our
                                                          personal data
                                                          is shared with
                                                          the
                                                          government.
                                                          Let's hope the
                                                          companies are
                                                          forthcoming --
                                                          but don't hold
                                                          your breath.</div>
                                                          <div>To be
                                                          sure, there
                                                          can be
                                                          legitimate
                                                          reasons for
                                                          law
                                                          enforcement
                                                          agents to
                                                          track
                                                          individuals'
                                                          movements. For
                                                          example, when
                                                          officers can
                                                          demonstrate to
                                                          a judge that
                                                          they have a
                                                          good reason to
                                                          believe that
                                                          tracking will
                                                          turn up
                                                          evidence of a
                                                          crime. But
                                                          with a
                                                          surveillance
                                                          technique this
                                                          powerful, the
                                                          public has a
                                                          strong
                                                          interest in
                                                          understanding
                                                          how it is used
                                                          to ensure that
                                                          it is not
                                                          abused. While
                                                          the details of
                                                          individual
                                                          investigations
                                                          can
                                                          legitimately
                                                          be kept
                                                          secret, the
                                                          public and our
                                                          elected
                                                          representatives
                                                          have a right
                                                          to know the
                                                          policies in
                                                          general so
                                                          their wisdom
                                                          can be
                                                          debated.</div>
                                                          <div>Cell
                                                          phone
                                                          companies have
                                                          long concealed
                                                          these facts,
                                                          and they're
                                                          fighting
                                                          vigorously to
                                                          keep it that
                                                          way. In
                                                          California,
                                                          the cell phone
                                                          industry
                                                          recently
                                                          opposed a bill
                                                          that would
                                                          have required
                                                          companies to
                                                          tell their
                                                          customers how
                                                          often and
                                                          under what
                                                          circumstances
                                                          they turn over
                                                          location
                                                          information to
                                                          the police,
                                                          complaining
                                                          that it would
                                                          be "unduly
                                                          burdensome."</div>
                                                          <div>What
                                                          little has
                                                          come to light
                                                          so far about
                                                          the companies'
                                                          practices does
                                                          not paint a
                                                          comforting
                                                          picture.
                                                          Addressing a
                                                          surveillance
                                                          industry
                                                          conference in
                                                          2009, Sprint's
                                                          electronic
                                                          surveillance
                                                          manager
                                                          revealed that
                                                          the company
                                                          had received
                                                          so many
                                                          requests for
                                                          location data
                                                          that it set up
                                                          a website
                                                          where the
                                                          police could
                                                          conveniently
                                                          access the
                                                          information
                                                          from the
                                                          comfort of
                                                          their desks.
                                                          In just a
                                                          13-month
                                                          period, he
                                                          said, the
                                                          company had
                                                          provided law
                                                          enforcement
                                                          with 8 million
                                                          individual
                                                          location data
                                                          points. Other
                                                          than Sprint,
                                                          we do not have
                                                          even this type
                                                          of basic
                                                          information
                                                          about the
                                                          frequency of
                                                          requests for
                                                          any of the
                                                          other cell
                                                          phone
                                                          companies.</div>
                                                          <div>The
                                                          poorly
                                                          understood
                                                          relationship
                                                          between cell
                                                          phone
                                                          companies and
                                                          police raises
                                                          grave privacy
                                                          concerns. Like
                                                          the companies,
                                                          law
                                                          enforcement
                                                          agencies have
                                                          a strong
                                                          incentive to
                                                          keep what is
                                                          actually
                                                          happening a
                                                          secret, lest
                                                          the public
                                                          find out and
                                                          demand new
                                                          legal
                                                          protections.
                                                          More than 10
                                                          years ago, the
                                                          Justice
                                                          Department
                                                          convinced the
                                                          House of
                                                          Representatives
                                                          to abandon
                                                          legislation
                                                          that would
                                                          have required
                                                          law
                                                          enforcement
                                                          agencies to
                                                          compile
                                                          similar
                                                          statistics,
                                                          arguing that
                                                          it would turn
                                                          "crime
                                                          fighters into
                                                          bookkeepers."</div>
                                                          <div>The
                                                          excessive
                                                          secrecy has
                                                          frustrated the
                                                          ability of the
                                                          American
                                                          people to have
                                                          an informed
                                                          debate on just
                                                          how much
                                                          information
                                                          police should
                                                          have access to
                                                          without
                                                          judicial
                                                          oversight or
                                                          having to show
                                                          probable
                                                          cause. It has
                                                          also prevented
                                                          Congress and
                                                          the courts
                                                          from
                                                          effectively
                                                          addressing
                                                          these
                                                          intrusive
                                                          surveillance
                                                          powers. That
                                                          is not how our
                                                          system of
                                                          government is
                                                          supposed to
                                                          work.</div>
                                                          <div>It would
                                                          not be
                                                          difficult for
                                                          the carriers
                                                          to tell
                                                          customers how
                                                          their data is
                                                          collected,
                                                          stored and
                                                          shared. In
                                                          fact, an
                                                          internal
                                                          Justice
                                                          Department
                                                          document from
                                                          2010,
                                                          dislodged
                                                          through a
                                                          public records
                                                          request by the
                                                          American Civil
                                                          Liberties
                                                          Union, showed
                                                          the data
                                                          retention
                                                          policies of
                                                          all major
                                                          carriers on a
                                                          single piece
                                                          of paper. The
                                                          phone
                                                          companies have
                                                          all created
                                                          detailed
                                                          handbooks for
                                                          law
                                                          enforcement
                                                          agents
                                                          describing
                                                          their policies
                                                          and prices
                                                          charged for
                                                          surveillance
                                                          assistance, a
                                                          few dated
                                                          versions of
                                                          which have
                                                          seeped out
                                                          onto the
                                                          Internet.</div>
                                                          <div>If the
                                                          cell phone
                                                          companies can
                                                          provide this
                                                          information to
                                                          law
                                                          enforcement
                                                          agencies, they
                                                          can and should
                                                          provide basic
                                                          information
                                                          about their
                                                          sharing of
                                                          data with law
                                                          enforcement to
                                                          their
                                                          customers,
                                                          too. While law
                                                          enforcement
                                                          sometimes
                                                          argues that
                                                          making members
                                                          of the public
                                                          aware that
                                                          cell phone
                                                          companies can
                                                          track them
                                                          will make it
                                                          more difficult
                                                          to catch
                                                          criminals, it
                                                          is too late in
                                                          the day for
                                                          that argument
                                                          now that cell
                                                          phone tracking
                                                          is a staple of
                                                          television
                                                          police <span><span>procedurals</span></span>.</div>
                                                          <div>Why
                                                          aren't these
                                                          policies
                                                          available on
                                                          the companies'
                                                          websites? With
                                                          such
                                                          information,
                                                          consumers
                                                          could vote
                                                          with their
                                                          wallets and
                                                          punish those
                                                          companies that
                                                          don't protect
                                                          privacy.
                                                          Keeping their
                                                          customers in
                                                          the dark about
                                                          surveillance
                                                          is better for
                                                          business, it
                                                          seems.</div>
                                                          <div>We pay
                                                          the cell phone
                                                          companies to
                                                          provide us
                                                          with a
                                                          service, not
                                                          keep tabs on
                                                          us for the
                                                          government.
                                                          And yet the
                                                          companies that
                                                          now have
                                                          access to some
                                                          of our most
                                                          private
                                                          information
                                                          refuse to
                                                          reveal even
                                                          the most basic
                                                          facts about
                                                          their
                                                          policies? We
                                                          deserve
                                                          better.</div>
                                                          <div>w.</div>
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