OK, well I have nothing to say. Sorry I brought it up in the first place, let's just get back to Livecode related subjects. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Timothy Miller < [email protected]> wrote: > Probably no conspiracy, yet… > > If and when we find out a conspiracy exists, it will be too late to take > precautions. > > On the other hand, if I wanted to be Big Brother, fifteen years from now, > I would go to work for Google today. (I'd consider Facebook, but I'd > probably go with Google.) Maybe Google isn't evil today. Fifteen years from > now, who knows? In any case, my Pappy used to say, "Never trust a man who > says, 'Trust me.'" > > Personally, I take precautions. > > I don't log into iGoogle very much, mostly just use plain Google. Maybe > I'll switch to DuckDuckGo. Don't use Google docs. Don't use Gmail. Change > my IP every few days. (If you use iGoogle, log out, do a search on plain > Google, Google still knows who you are, from your IP address.) I don't use > Facebook. If I did, I would post very little personal information, and > would not use the chat feature - I would chat on another service. I back up > documents and LC stacks on the cloud, but I encrypt them first. Block > tracking cookies. Clear my cookies and cache pretty often, including LSO > cookies. And so on. > > In the words of the Grateful Dead: > > When they come to take you down, > When they bring that wagon round, > When they come to call on you, > And drag your poor body down, > Just one thing I ask of you… > Please forget that you know my name, > Please forget that you know me. > > When I was in high school, lo these many years ago, every high school > student read 1984. Russia and most of Eastern Europe were totalitarian > dictatorships infested with informers and secret police. We were scared it > could happen here. How soon we forget! > > Now that technology makes it so much easier for Big Brother to exist, no > one seems worried about it. > > Tim > > On May 15, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > > > On 16/05/2012, at 8:40 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > > >> Ah, another conspiracy theorist I see! > > > > All conspiracy theories aside, there *is* something to be said about > giving Google, Facebook et al less of your personal information: > > > > http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html > > > > -- > > Igor Couto > > Sydney, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
