Re: eBay's Patriotism

2003-02-20 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:42 AM 2/20/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Eric Cordian wrote: There's an interesting story on the home page of http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ disclosing eBay's policy of giving all information they have on a user to any guvment-appearing person who a

Re: eBay's Patriotism

2003-02-20 Thread Adam Back
Google is likely an eavesdropping hot-spot in intelligence gathering. A big fraction of web requests go via google. When you're looking for something particular it's a likely starting point to find a site specialising in info you need. Google offers no SSL interface. And anyway from these stori

Re: eBay's Patriotism

2003-02-20 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Eric Cordian wrote: There's an interesting story on the home page of http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ disclosing eBay's policy of giving all information they have on a user to any guvment-appearing person who asks for it. It's well known that eBay rumin

eBay's Patriotism

2003-02-20 Thread Eric Cordian
There's an interesting story on the home page of http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ disclosing eBay's policy of giving all information they have on a user to any guvment-appearing person who asks for it. It's well known that eBay ruminates over what fraud could do to its reputation, and employs a slew o