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[privacy] The Internet Anonymity Experiment
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:35:14 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via PopSci.com. [snip] In 2006, David Holtzman decided to do an experiment. Holtzman, a security consultant and former intelligence analyst, was working on a book about privacy, and he wanted to see how much he could find out about himself from sources available to any tenacious stalker. So he did background checks. He pulled his credit file. He looked at Amazon.com transactions and his credit-card and telephone bills. He got his DNA analyzed and kept a log of all the people he called and e-mailed, along with the Web sites he visited. When he put the information together, he was able to discover so much about himselffrom detailed financial information to the fact that he was circumcisedthat his publisher, concerned about his privacy, didnt let him include it all in the book. Im no intelligence analyst, but stories like Holtzmans freak me out. [snip] More: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-02/anonymity-experiment - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHtPpeq1pz9mNUZTMRAkKbAKDssedECclyrKLRDTlxpa/nHnhKbwCfbQTl rGLobOzFjzb9UlXbAYtx/nc= =HJxU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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