<div dir="ltr">Indulge me as I tell you a little story:<div><br></div><div>Nearly 20 years ago, some men from the middle east attacked an office complex in NY City, that was complicit in the later 2008 financial meltdown.</div><div>(They TRIED to do us a favor!)<br><div><br></div><div>The village idiot of a 3000mi wide village was busy reading to a Kindergarten class in Florida.</div><div>(Probably not bright enough for anything more sophisticated)</div><div>Unfortunately, hes also a distant cousin of mine.</div><div><br></div><div>The Secret Service bundled him onto a plane and stashed him in a place called "The Hole" some 10 stories beneath Omaha.</div><div>Around sunset, they deemed the skies safe enough to return to DC.</div><div><br></div><div>Back at the Whitehouse, "Shrub" (the 'little Bush') demanded a dossier on each of the attackers.</div><div>The CIA stated that it would take a month to compile, as they had few assets in the right areas.</div><div>One of the Aides came into the room and announced "Mr President, the phone will ring soon and you REALLY need to answer it"</div><div>Sure enough, the phone did ring.</div><div>Shrub was not wild about the interuption, but he took the call.</div><div>"Mr President, this is Lexus Nexxus. We are very sorry, but we wont have the information ready for you until noon tomorrow."</div><div><br></div><div>When I heard this, I realized that we only have one more generation with the CIA at best.</div><div>Intelligence is being privatised as I write this.</div><div>These private organizations dont have to "spy" on people very much.</div><div>People GLADLY tell them everything, and I mean EVERYTHING!</div><div>There are people who photograph and post pics of their meal plates.</div><div><br></div><div>During the whole Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence dust up, I was working at FACEB00C (Their IPv6 prefix).</div><div>I had to explain to people that FB was NOT a cpmpany to connect people together.</div><div>That was just the facade. They were REALLY about scooping up information for later sale.</div><div><br></div><div>Interestinglyly enough, FB still to this day tries to prevent people from joining under "screen names".</div><div>They want your REAL name and for good reason.</div><div>Supposedly to avoid online bullying, but we know the REAL reason dont we?</div><div><br></div><div>As the CIA fades into the sunset, we greet out new privatised intelligence industry, Yahoo, Google, Facebook etc.</div><div><br></div><div>I note that Hugh Daniel warned us about this before he died. </div><div>Did we listen?</div><div>Hell NO!</div><div>Do we deserve this?</div><div>Probably.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:35 PM Don Marti <<a href="mailto:dmarti@zgp.org">dmarti@zgp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2/11/19 9:24 AM, <a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a> wrote:<br>
> The other day, I was shopping for clothes. Firefox w/ no script.<br>
> <br>
> There was a pop-up saying that some website requested sending a message to another site. Actually those sort of messages have become rather common place. I usually just click "block always" and get back to what I was trying to do.<br>
> <br>
> This time I read the names of the websites. Why would I want Facebook to know if I am looking at boxers vs. briefs?<br>
<br>
Yes, Facebook makes "shadow profiles" of people who aren't registered <br>
users and have not clicked "OK" to the terms of service. Hella creepy.<br>
<br>
The Firefox UI for dealing with this kind of thing changed. If you want <br>
what used to be "Tracking Protection" you're going to want to go to <br>
"Content Blocking" and select "Strict."<br>
<br>
If you had the old Tracking Protection turned on, it should do the right <br>
thing, but it can't hurt to check.<br>
<br>
The "Cookie AutoDelete" extension is a good second line of defense in <br>
case you have to turn off tracking protection to get a site to work.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://blog.zgp.org/firefox-extensions-list-2018/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.zgp.org/firefox-extensions-list-2018/</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div>