On Feb 9, 2012 1:35 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan
wrote:
> >> >>
> >
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, "Paul Hartman"
>> >>
>> >> wrote:
On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, "Paul Hartman"
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>
> >> >8 snippage
> >>
> >>>
> >>> BTW, the Baidu spider
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, "Paul Hartman"
>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> >8 snippage
>>
>>>
>>> BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined...
>>>
>>
>> Somewhat
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, "Paul Hartman"
> wrote:
>>
>
> >8 snippage
>
>>
>> BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined...
>>
>
> Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the
>
On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, "Paul Hartman"
wrote:
>
>8 snippage
>
> BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined...
>
Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the
reason why my company decided to change our webhosting company: Its
spi
I know this thread is a few weeks old but it is still highly related. I
found this:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-actually-changed-google%27s-privacy-policy
Maybe it ain't so bad after all. Someone posted it wasn't tho.
Dale
:-) :-)
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On 1/29/2012 02:47 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:12:17 Dale wrote:
> As far as I can tell all that is changing with Google is they are going to
> join up in terms of user authentication, hitherto separate portals or apps
> they had. I
On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:12:17 Dale wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > have you read googles privacy changes yourself?
> >
> > I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual.
>
> I read some more on it but I'm thinking about what will be coming next.
> It seems when a compan
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> have you read googles privacy changes yourself?
>
> I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual.
>
>
I read some more on it but I'm thinking about what will be coming next.
It seems when a company goes public like Google did a while back,
facebook i
Hi,
have you read googles privacy changes yourself?
I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual.
Am 27.01.2012 07:57, schrieb Dale:
> Dale wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I ran across this news item about Google:
>>
>> http://alturl.com/s7xi5
>>
>> The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
>> since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
>> they
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:48 AM, wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600
> Dale wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I
>> do like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool.
>>
>> Thoughts? Suggestions?
>>
> What about
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Graham Murray wrote:
> James Broadhead writes:
>
>> I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty
>> unique; no standard set of fonts, for example.
>
> So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it might not be able to
> track you - think
Hello!
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600
Dale wrote:
> Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I
> do like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool.
>
> Thoughts? Suggestions?
>
What about Yandex? It provides a search tool and a mail box with
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:31:50 +
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote:
>
> > Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I
> > came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate
> > candidates with networking and security k
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:59:34 +, Mick wrote:
> > My contact was interested in someone with experience in high
> > performance clusters. Can anyone point to a post of mine, here or
> > anywhere else, that implies that my knowledge of clustering extends
> > beyond being able to spell it?
>
> Y
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 12:31:50 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote:
> > Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I
> > came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate
> > candidates with networking and security knowledge,
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote:
> Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I
> came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate
> candidates with networking and security knowledge, who would be keen to
> work for Google at a (relatively) l
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 00:48:14 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 26 January 2012 21:29:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I've been contacted, and interviewed by phone, by Google TWICE. Both
> > times the person said straight up they read gentoo-users
>
> I was contacted too, but I think they were swa
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:38:15 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> To turn this on its head ... rather than hiding, is there a way to
> create identical browsers that pollute their (google et al.) databases?
Considering the huge number a people using the likes of Google (and no
one has stated that th
Dale wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I ran across this news item about Google:
>
> http://alturl.com/s7xi5
>
> The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
> since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
> they will want a camera on my rig so they can w
James Broadhead writes:
> I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty
> unique; no standard set of fonts, for example.
So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it might not be able to
track you - thinking that you are actually multiple different people.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:38 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
>> >
>> >> >>> I guess you mean https://panopticlick.e
On Thursday 26 January 2012 21:29:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I've been contacted, and interviewed by phone, by Google TWICE. Both
> times the person said straight up they read gentoo-users
I was contacted too, but I think they were swayed by my sig. Anyway, no
further contact once I told them a
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> >
> >> >>> I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
> >> >>
> >> >> My results from work:
> >> >>
> >> >> You
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:59:57AM -0600, Dale wrote:
>> John J. Foster wrote:
>>> Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
>>> I do pay for the enhanced account.
>>>
>>> Good luck
>>> festus
>>>
>>
>>
>> Do they allow encrypted messages t
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:47:18 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > My first reaction was, why would Google need a CV from me, surely they
> > already know more about me than my mother does? Clearly they don't.
>
> Of course they do! They just wanted you to confirm what they know about
> you. Who k
> My first reaction was, why would Google need a CV from me, surely they
> already know more about me than my mother does? Clearly they don't.
Of course they do! They just wanted you to confirm what they know about
you. Who knows, maybe you lied when you posted a story on facebook where
you told p
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:12:39 +
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:43 +, Mick wrote:
>
> > > Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that
> > > hot anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I
> > > am completely unqualified - and not just
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:52:47 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> >> I guess you could achieve the same using different user profiles. For
> >> example `firefox --no-remote -P google` and `firefox --no-remote -P
> >> default`.
> >
> > Ha! I didn't know that FF can handle different profiles! I better
> >
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:16, Dale wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke
>> wrote:
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how
much it could
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick wrote:
>> On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote:
>>
>>> This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for
>>> different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Yo
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote:
>
>> This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for
>> different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+,
>> Opera for Facebook and Firefox for normal
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote:
> This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for
> different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+,
> Opera for Facebook and Firefox for normal browsing?
Yes, I use Chromium --incognito to check
> From: Frank Steinmetzger [mailto:war...@gmx.de]
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:05 AM
> This backs me up in using noscript and flashblock. Sometimes I doubt
myself
> when I get asked once more why I would use NoScript in times when most of
> the web relies on JS. I then say that privacy an
Am 26.01.2012 11:07, schrieb Mick:
> On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 08:48:28 Michael Mathurin wrote:
>> Dale writes:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I ran across this news item about Google:
>>>
>>> http://alturl.com/s7xi5
>>>
>>> The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
>>> since th
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Lorenzo Bandieri
wrote:
> Maybe slightly OT, but what do gentoo-users think about Tor?
As an anonymising proxy, in my opinion, I consider it to be the most
hostile network one could ever use. I would only use Tor from within a
virtual machine that contains no oth
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 17:11:39 Lorenzo Bandieri wrote:
> > Me, I use Chromium for using "social media" sites or Google services
> > that I want to log-in to. Google+, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. I
> > don't use it for anything else.
> >
> > I use Firefox for everything else. I am not logged int
> Me, I use Chromium for using "social media" sites or Google services
> that I want to log-in to. Google+, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. I
> don't use it for anything else.
>
> I use Firefox for everything else. I am not logged into any of those
> services in Firefox. I use RequestPolicy to block a
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Dale wrote:
> The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
> since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
> they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf.
To be honest, I already assumed they were
On 26 January 2012 16:18, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> Within our dataset of visitors, one in 0 browsers have the same
>> fingerprint as yours.
>>
>> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
>> conveys INF bits of identifying information.
>>
>> I think I broke it. I wi
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 16:04:45 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> > >>> I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
> > >>
> > >> My results from work:
> > >>
> > >> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102
> >
> Within our dataset of visitors, one in 0 browsers have the same
> fingerprint as yours.
>
> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
> conveys INF bits of identifying information.
>
> I think I broke it. I win? :)
>
Sweet, panopticlick.eff.org got gentoo'd :)
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
>
My results from work:
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested
so far.
>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> >>> I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
>> >>
>> >> My results from work:
>> >>
>> >> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
>>>
>>> My results from work:
>>>
>>> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested so
>>> far.
>>>
>>> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprin
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:59:57AM -0600, Dale wrote:
> John J. Foster wrote:
> > Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
> > I do pay for the enhanced account.
> >
> > Good luck
> > festus
> >
>
>
> Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pa
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> >>> I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
> >>
> >> My results from work:
> >>
> >> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested
> >> so far.
> >>
> >> Currently, we estimate that your browser has
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 08:22 AM, John J. Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote:
> > John J. Foster wrote:
> > > Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
> > > I do pay for the enhanced account.
> > >
> > > Good luck
> > > festus
> > >
>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:05:25 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>
>> > There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a
>> > high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you
>> > how much it could glean fro
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote:
> John J. Foster wrote:
> > Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
> > I do pay for the enhanced account.
> >
> > Good luck
> > festus
> >
>
>
> Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:05:25 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a
> > high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you
> > how much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't
> > remember where is
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:43 +, Mick wrote:
> > Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that hot
> > anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I am
> > completely unqualified - and not just because it meant getting out of
> > bed before 9am :-O
>
> Ha, ha
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dale wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke
>> wrote:
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how
much it cou
Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke
> wrote:
>>> There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
>>> level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how
>>> much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 13:50:46 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that hot
> anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I am
> completely unqualified - and not just because it meant getting out of bed
> before 9am :-O
Ha, ha! A ver
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
>> level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how
>> much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't remember
>> where is was. S
> There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
> level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how
> much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't remember
> where is was. Somewhere like the EFF.
I guess you mean https://panopticlick.
John J. Foster wrote:
> Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
> I do pay for the enhanced account.
>
> Good luck
> festus
>
Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and
I'm pretty sure it does.
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:56:49 +, Mick wrote:
> > They can track a lot more than IP addresses, your browser can provide
> > a lot of information, not just user-agent but installed fonts, plugin
> > information and much more. There is enough to do a damn good job of
> > identifying you even when
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 01:16 AM, Dale wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I ran across this news item about Google:
>
> http://alturl.com/s7xi5
>
> The long URL is below. I'm sort
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 11:33:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:07:51 +, Mick wrote:
> > BTW, it seems to me that if you access youtube and at the same time
> > search Google without being logged in to any of their portals, they
> > will not be tracking your email for user profil
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On 01/26/2012 08:16 AM, Dale wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I ran across this news item about Google:
>
> http://alturl.com/s7xi5
>
> The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like
> Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:07:51 +, Mick wrote:
> BTW, it seems to me that if you access youtube and at the same time
> search Google without being logged in to any of their portals, they
> will not be tracking your email for user profiling purposes. They may
> be logging IP addresses but it coul
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 08:48:28 Michael Mathurin wrote:
> Dale writes:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I ran across this news item about Google:
> >
> > http://alturl.com/s7xi5
> >
> > The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
> > since they seem to be doing things that I'm
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 01:16:01AM -0600, Dale wrote
> I'm sort of getting tired of switching emails every time I switch ISPs
> or there is a policy change. That is why I switched to gmail in the
> first place. No matter what ISP I use, I can still use Gmail. Yet,
> here I am again.
Years ag
Dale writes:
> Hi list,
>
> I ran across this news item about Google:
>
> http://alturl.com/s7xi5
>
> The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
> since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
> they will want a camera on my rig so they can w
On Thu, January 26, 2012 8:16 am, Dale wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I ran across this news item about Google:
>
> http://alturl.com/s7xi5
>
> The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
> since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
> they will want
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf. I found a
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