Bandwidth Thieves
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Topic: Bandwidth Thieves
Posted By: dpyers
Subject: Bandwidth Thieves
Date Posted: 10 February 2006 at 1:07am
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0209/p01s02-uspo.html?s=hns - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0209/p01s02-uspo.html?s=hns
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Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 10 February 2006 at 7:04am
| If they do more research into it, I'm all for it |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 10 February 2006 at 1:49pm
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if it's on the web it ain't private anyhoo. ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 10 February 2006 at 5:23pm
I seem to recall it uses Alexa technology so it can't be that good 
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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 10 February 2006 at 10:47pm
but...
email isnt on the "web" publicly.. news, blogs etc isnt THAT much of a "privacy" issue, but id be worried about emails also, does anyone know what the US Gov would do about foreign sites? is it just american sites? or does it go global? ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
ctscott wrote:Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 11 February 2006 at 8:34am
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police state we call it.. like the KGB ruled.. now the CIA will ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 11 February 2006 at 1:27pm
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After 9/11 there were articles about how the US Gov. got MS to agree to install things for them that wouldn't show up as a running process. Also got the major AV vendors to agree that they wouldn't detect the Gov. stuff. IIRC, there was supposed to be some sort of activation for a particular pc before it started doing whatever it was supposed to do but who knows how it was finally implemented. I doubt that's it's been universally activated though - too many open source process monitors available - someone would have found it. On the other hand, there's nothing that says it has to run in normal address space if the OS and/or the chip manufacturers allow it to run in restricted or reserved space. I remember coding stuff like that in assembler. Bottom line is that there's nothing about your PC that makes it immune from monitoring unless you never connect to anything. -------------
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Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 11 February 2006 at 2:19pm
good point on the emails. i didn't pick up on that. they'll probably be hunting me down thinking i'm into being a porn star with all the "massive" and "enlargement" emails i get.  ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 11 February 2006 at 3:09pm
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ohh and i could be a potential corrupt smuggler with all the nigerian scam mails i get.. and more recently some from lebanese and east europe ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss">
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Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 11 February 2006 at 7:16pm
...and don't have a monitor / screen
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Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 13 February 2006 at 12:43am
| so, uh, are they pretending that they've only just developed Echelon? or is this Echelon 2.0? |