[ExI] The NSA's new data center

[J.R. Jones]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:26 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>
> >... On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl
>
> >>...On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:03:18PM -0400, J.R. Jones wrote:
>
> >>... With transparency, I think, would come a new found respect ...
>
> >...I think total transparency is the most naive horse pucky (RIP, Robert)
> I've heard in a longest while... Eugen Leitl
>
>
> We know we cannot stop all data leakage, so perhaps a better strategy for
> privacy fans is intentional obscuration.  I have friends over to my house
> regularly, and have them do Google searches on whatever they want, just to
> clutter the profile, like camo on a tank or a soldier putting foliage on
> his
> helmet.  Same for posts, including posts to ExI-chat.  If anyone ever asks
> me if I wrote something, intentional obscuration redirects the power back
> to
> myself.  I can ask to see the comment, then I have the option of owning it
> or not recalling having written that comment.  In general I think this is a
> more effective strategy than stopping all data leakage.
>
> Even if one does not practice intentional obscuration, the other guy does
> not know that, or cannot prove it.
>
> What would be even better is if some of you code-hipster privacy fans can
> figure out a way to arrange for others to log on as me elsewhere and still
> make it become part of my online profile and my search history.  That would
> be a kick!  Become a melded generic extropian avatar, our search histories
> a
> superset of all those currently reading these words.  The presence of that
> tech would discourage the data snoops, for their whole exercise of
> data-mining and search profiling would become pointless.
>
> Extra credit if our alternate selves are on another continent.
>
> Eugen, how do we do it?  Can I just post you my passwords?
>
> spike


Run a tor exit node.  It won't put these searches and such on your
particular credentials as far as google is concerned, but it'd add the
traffic to your network tap, for whoever is watching your pipe.
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