[FairfieldLife] Re: Which Internet Company has NOT given the US Gov its records?
The only real solution irreducible encryption.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Which Internet Company has NOT given the US Gov its records?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Which Internet Company has NOT given the US Gov its records?
Yer gettin old - The codes really are longstaff brittle hardfart --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: Today's codewords are: langstaff bottle aardvark You can find your secret decoder ring in specially marked boxes of Post Toasties. On 09/07/2013 07:57 AM, emptybill wrote: *WHICH INTERNET COMPANY /HASN'T/ GIVEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ITS RECORDS? * June 10, 2013 NEW YORK: Outraged Internet users searching for an alternative to the privacy-busting companies they'd trusted are turning to a company that provides what it calls, the world's most private search engines. *StartPage*and its sister search engine *Ixquick* were launched in 2006 to staunchly defend their users' privacy and civil liberties. StartPage provides a private portal to Google results, while Ixquick provides private results from other search engines. The services have not participated in PRISM, nor have they ever provided user data to the U.S. government or to any other government or agency in the U.S. or anywhere in the world. That is more than nine of the biggest Internet companies -- Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube, PalTalk, AOL and Skype -- can say. The Privacy of our users rests on three important foundations, explains StartPage and Ixquick CEO Robert Beens. We are based in the Netherlands, we use encrypted connections, and -- most importantly -- we don't store or share any of our users' personal search data. * *No User Data Stored:*StartPage and Ixquick never store user data, including IP addresses and search queries, so government agencies have no incentive to ask for these. This privacy is so complete; the company doesn't even know who its customers are, so it can't share anything with Big Brother. * *Encrypted (HTTPS) Connections:*StartPage and Ixquick were the first search engines to use automatic encryption on all connections to prevent snooping. When searches are encrypted, third parties like ISPs and the NSA can't eavesdrop on Internet connections to see what people are searching for. * *Not Under U.S. Jurisdiction:*StartPage and Ixquick are based in the Netherlands, so they are not directly subject to U.S. regulations, warrants, or court orders. They can't be forced to participate in spying programs like PRISM. The company has never turned over a single bit of user data to any government entity in the 14 years it has been in business, which is not surprising since there is no data in the first place. StartPage and Ixquick are also the only search engines whose privacy practices have been independently verified and third-party certified through the European Union's Privacy Seal program. Unfortunately, it takes a scandal like PRISM to wake people up to the erosion of privacy, says Harvard-trained privacy expert Dr. Katherine Albrecht, who helped develop StartPage. As people get fed up with being spied on, they look for alternatives. We already serve nearly 3 million private searches each day, and we expect that number to grow as people seek shelter from search engines that store and share their private information. The company will expand its privacy services this summer with the addition of a new private email product called StartMail . StartMail will offer a paid, private email platform with strong encryption. Anyone interested in beta testing the program on its release can sign up at www.StartMail.com *E.U. Contact Person*: Alex van Eesteren Sales Business Development www.StartPage.com // www.Ixquick.com +31-30-6971778
[FairfieldLife] Re: Which Internet Company has NOT given the US Gov its records?
My code is embossed on my feces. Blueberries and corn give a bright contrast. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Yer gettin old - The codes really are longstaff brittle hardfart --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: Today's codewords are: langstaff bottle aardvark You can find your secret decoder ring in specially marked boxes of Post Toasties. On 09/07/2013 07:57 AM, emptybill wrote: *WHICH INTERNET COMPANY /HASN'T/ GIVEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ITS RECORDS? * June 10, 2013 NEW YORK: Outraged Internet users searching for an alternative to the privacy-busting companies they'd trusted are turning to a company that provides what it calls, the world's most private search engines. *StartPage*and its sister search engine *Ixquick* were launched in 2006 to staunchly defend their users' privacy and civil liberties. StartPage provides a private portal to Google results, while Ixquick provides private results from other search engines. The services have not participated in PRISM, nor have they ever provided user data to the U.S. government or to any other government or agency in the U.S. or anywhere in the world. That is more than nine of the biggest Internet companies -- Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube, PalTalk, AOL and Skype -- can say. The Privacy of our users rests on three important foundations, explains StartPage and Ixquick CEO Robert Beens. We are based in the Netherlands, we use encrypted connections, and -- most importantly -- we don't store or share any of our users' personal search data. * *No User Data Stored:*StartPage and Ixquick never store user data, including IP addresses and search queries, so government agencies have no incentive to ask for these. This privacy is so complete; the company doesn't even know who its customers are, so it can't share anything with Big Brother. * *Encrypted (HTTPS) Connections:*StartPage and Ixquick were the first search engines to use automatic encryption on all connections to prevent snooping. When searches are encrypted, third parties like ISPs and the NSA can't eavesdrop on Internet connections to see what people are searching for. * *Not Under U.S. Jurisdiction:*StartPage and Ixquick are based in the Netherlands, so they are not directly subject to U.S. regulations, warrants, or court orders. They can't be forced to participate in spying programs like PRISM. The company has never turned over a single bit of user data to any government entity in the 14 years it has been in business, which is not surprising since there is no data in the first place. StartPage and Ixquick are also the only search engines whose privacy practices have been independently verified and third-party certified through the European Union's Privacy Seal program. Unfortunately, it takes a scandal like PRISM to wake people up to the erosion of privacy, says Harvard-trained privacy expert Dr. Katherine Albrecht, who helped develop StartPage. As people get fed up with being spied on, they look for alternatives. We already serve nearly 3 million private searches each day, and we expect that number to grow as people seek shelter from search engines that store and share their private information. The company will expand its privacy services this summer with the addition of a new private email product called StartMail . StartMail will offer a paid, private email platform with strong encryption. Anyone interested in beta testing the program on its release can sign up at www.StartMail.com *E.U. Contact Person*: Alex van Eesteren Sales Business Development www.StartPage.com // www.Ixquick.com +31-30-6971778
[FairfieldLife] Re: Which Internet Company has NOT given the US Gov its records?
I would think it is more than a hassle. Scooping up and storing the data is just one step. Supercomputing is not cheap and breaking good encryption costs time which is a commodity in itself when taping into the Octodecillion bits streaming each minute on a major trunk. The real question currently seems to be - What is extremely good encryption? and Can it be created for commercial use?
