<div dir="ltr"><div>I believe Pink Floyd may have some pertinent thoughts on trusting the gov't.</div><div><a href="http://youtu.be/qO3FLWKwzpk" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/qO3FLWKwzpk</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Paul Rumelhart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The more we learn about what the government is doing, the more
reason we find not to trust them. Secret letters to corporations
they can't even talk about forcing them to give us so much data,
secret courts to determine if secret gathering of data is
legitimate. Secret documents describing their secret
justifications for these secret data grabs.<br>
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Do you trust our government? Are you OK with the sweeping
gathering of data that we have recently heard about in the news?<br>
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Do you trust corporations? Are you OK with them selling our data
to advertisers and who knows who else?<br>
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In my opinion, it's better to be distrustful of a group of people
who hide behind secrecy even now than it is to be blissfully
naive.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 07/04/2013 07:22 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br>
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everything rustles.” </span><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">- Sophocles</span></div>
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Moscow, because . . .</div>
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you still</span><span style="font-size:medium"> </span></div>
<span style="font-size:medium">But first you must learn how to smile as you
kill </span><br style="font-size:medium">
<span style="font-size:medium">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div>
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On Jul 4, 2013, at 7:00 PM, Paul Rumelhart <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>>
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It does bug me. And it's pointless for them anyway, since I
run AdBlock Plus and NoScript on Firefox and hence never see
the ads anyway. I also mitigate it by popping my email to
my home machine. I'm sure they scan it coming in, but I
doubt they keep a copy of every email that I delete for very
long. It wouldn't make business sense to have to have that
amount of extra storage on hand. I've been aware of these
kinds of things for a long time, and have in the past
brought things like this up on the list. I figure it's not
gotten so bad that I need to go to the trouble of setting up
a mail server and changing every account I've opened on the
net over to it. Not yet, anyway. I'm sure it will get
there someday.<br>
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The fact that corporations do sell my data in certain cases
doesn't mean I approve of it in the slightest.<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 07/04/2013 03:12 PM, Scott Dredge wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Companies having been selling data for eons
to anyone willing to pay for it. And lots of times these
companies will allow you to pay a premium to keep your
data more secure. For instance, for $5 per month, you
can get an unlisted Verizon phone number:<br>
<a href="http://hothardware.com/News/Verizon-Claims-5-Monthly-Fee-Necessary-For-Unlisted-Number/" target="_blank">http://hothardware.com/News/Verizon-Claims-5-Monthly-Fee-Necessary-For-Unlisted-Number/</a><br>
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One question I have for you is that since Yahoo a full
month ago started scanning & analyzing emails for ad
targeting, why aren't you bugged by that? Is it because
it's a free service and if you were concerned about them
rooting through your emails, you'd switch and pay for a
premium account that doesn't do that sort of thing?<br>
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I'll concede that ad targeting is less disconcerting than
the thought of the big, bad, dangerous almighty government
tracking you and the lines for limiting their power are
(or will be) drawn for them by lawmakers and the
Constitution (or whatever tatters are left of it as Sunil
points out).<br>
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-Scott<br>
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<hr>Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 12:33:20
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From: <a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">godshatter@yahoo.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com" target="_blank">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a><br>
CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A quick rant about the term
"metadata"<br>
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It's OK if they pay for it, but not if they force them
to give it over? Are you OK with all the companies we
do business with selling all our data to the
government, or do you draw a line somewhere?<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 07/04/2013 10:08 AM, Scott Dredge wrote:<br>
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<pre>The term 'metadata' bugs you. What bugs me is that this 'valuable data' is being sucked
up by the NSA 'wholesale' instead of the telcos charging them a pretty penny for it.
The whole mess seems to be creating a lot of bugging.
-Scott
Paul wrote:
As a computer science guy, this bugs me.
I've seen the term "metadata" abused in the news media and online often
in relation to phone data the NSA is sucking up wholesale.
"Metadata", as the media is using the term, *is* data. Things like
phone numbers, dates, times, duration of calls, cell phone tower
identifiers, etc *is* data.
The term "metadata" has a specific meaning, it's data about data. For
example, metadata on the data that Verizon was forced to give over would
look something like this:
Field Data Type Size Comment
Originating Phone Number NUMBER 10
Called Number NUMBER 10
Call Duration NUMBER 4 Length of call in seconds
Date of Call CHAR 10 Date format: MM/DD/YYYY
Time of Call CHAR 12 Time format: HH24:MI:SS.nnn
...
And so on. I couldn't care less if they grabbed the metadata from all
the phone carriers. It would be a bunch of database table descriptions.
Don't kid yourself, what they grabbed from the telcos was actual data,
and valuable data at that.
Paul
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