First I don't know where one 'logs in'. Second all the Privacy notices
etc seem to go to the generic www.dot.gov site. Thirdly, I can't find
the text of the claim after a few minutes browsing and 'Find'ing.
Fourthly when I Google the beginning phrase 'This application provides
access to the DoT CARS' brings up a ton of links all it seems
perpetrating the same conspiracy theory. After scanning the first 4
pages and still no 'cars.gov' link showing up - it's more than EXTREMELY
suspect. Fifth see the entry at snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/clunkers.asp which gives the
background and history of the rumor in gory detail.
Time to move on and wish the bloggers and perpetrators could use their
time and energies more productively.
Thanks
Robert C
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Dear "List",
This claim seems EXTREMELY suspect. Have any of you heard the same
claim. How do you evaluate it?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Chris Kuhlman <mailto:[email protected]>
*To: List Suppressed*
*Sent:* 8/10/2009 8:26:54 AM
*Subject:* Fwd: Orweliean - You be the judge.
A Foxnews / Glenn Beck piece shows that logging onto the U.S.
government web site www.cars.gov <http://www.cars.gov/> for any
reason automatically confers rights of access and even ownership
of your computer, as well as the contents therein to the U.S.
government..., judge for yourselves.
http://www.wikio.com/video/1479672
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