Guest darkskyabove Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) is back on the House floor: H.R. 624 (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/HR624.pdf). It passed the House in April, 2012, but not the Senate. I recommend that anyone who uses a computer read this Bill. I will not attempt a synopsis as its verbiage is rather vague and circular. My general impression is another version of tyranny disguised as necessary assistance for the public good. In addition, I recommend reading up on web-tracking (Google Analytics in particular) and tools to block it, like Ghostery.; which I use. (Side note: even this site is linked to Google Analytics, which is usually used for marketing research; though it, supposedly, can be helpful in streamlining a website based on traffic statistics.) What's the connection? Websites track user activities, everything from what site you visit, to what search terms you input, to what information you are viewing. This information is stored by entities like Google. (I recommend using duckduckgo.com as a search engine: no tracking!) Now the Federal government is re-proposing a law that gives legal sanction to "entities" who wish to share cyber information with the Federal Intelligence community. So Google, a paragon of honest cyber virtue[*-)] could potentially just hand over the entire load of data on users that it has been collecting for years. (Remember, this is not just data from Google itself, but from every website that subscribes to Google Analytics.) And handing it to those illustrious leaders we all know and love with their spotless record of information management and decision making.[dazed]
RestoringGuy Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) is back on the House floor: H.R. 624 (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/HR624.pdf). It passed the House in April, 2012, but not the Senate. I have been following this type of thing, and still amazed few people know about this. as well as the cell phone GPS chip, tracking of your TV channelsurfing, onStar, etc. Here is a good search engine that does not track. If you have https at the beginning of the URL, it is encrypted so (I think) it's invisible to your local ISP: https://duckduckgo.com/
Guest darkskyabove Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 If you use https://duckduckgo.com/html/ there is no Javascript, so use of another security tool, NoScript, does not have to block the scripts. I will try to write a more definitive post on using a computer, especially the Internet. I don't mean to push the Appeal to Authority on anyone, but I have been doing this since MS-DOS, through every iteration of WinDon'ts, and now use Linux. Stay tuned...
RestoringGuy Posted March 30, 2013 Posted March 30, 2013 If you use https://duckduckgo.com/html/ there is no Javascript, so use of another security tool, NoScript, does not have to block the scripts. I will try to write a more definitive post on using a computer, especially the Internet. I don't mean to push the Appeal to Authority on anyone, but I have been doing this since MS-DOS, through every iteration of WinDon'ts, and now use Linux. Awesome. Hey I still use MS-DOS a lot of the time. Not that fancy 3.5" either.
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