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OK, I was just reading about the fallout from this issue on a news blog, and some techie got the brilliant idea to buy the private browser history of all of the members of Congress who voted for this stupid bill, and make it public. It would show them how idiotic and dangerous this law is.
These days, almost all content is encrypted (https and the like) - but the ISP can quite easily see what websites you're going to. It's a bit like the difference between the postal service keeping a record of who you're corresponding with vs. reading your letters.
While it's supposed to be encrypted, there have been numerous times where encryption services failed.
The Heartbleed vulnerability comes to mind. There was also the more-recent "CloudBleed" vulnerability.
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Will banking info, email/ passwords, addresses, etc be protected? Why do they want this info from Americans? I am against the government taking private info that wasn't given to them.
It's not the government doing it. The government is allowing service providers to gather and sell information. Because profit.
For the most part, encrypted and secure information like passwords should be safe. At least until another vulnerability allows passwords and stuff to be leaked as direct-text transfer.
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The other end of the tunnel ends up somewhere. Will these places keep a secret?
If you have a good VPN, they do keep it secret. That's why you research VPN services before making that jump.
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What? Your willing to make money off this? I hope you aren't serious.
Capitalism, m'dear.
Where there's a buck to be made, there will always be someone willing to take advantage of others. There's a reason we have federal regulations that tell employers "No, you can't tell your plebs that it's safe to put radium-soaked paintbrushes in their mouths".
OK, I was just reading about the fallout from this issue on a news blog, and some techie got the brilliant idea to buy the private browser history of all of the members of Congress who voted for this stupid bill, and make it public. It would show them how idiotic and dangerous this law is.
I anticipate a lot of gay porn showing up in those browsing histories.
These days, almost all content is encrypted (https and the like) - but the ISP can quite easily see what websites you're going to. It's a bit like the difference between the postal service keeping a record of who you're corresponding with vs. reading your letters.
Money. You spent time looking up stuff with cancer support groups? Your health insurance would very much like to know. Did you visit Home Depot's website? Time for Lowe's to put some ads in your browser and some spam in your mailbox.
This is not the government taking anything. This was the government keeping your Internet provider from snooping in your business, and Republicans putting a stop to that.
And from what I heard on TV today they are putting something in this bill to prevent it from being overturned, ever.
For the record, not a single Democrat in the House or Senate voted for this.
To any intelligent, decent human being, there is no question that Democrats are the better group of people. Republicans don't care about anyone except their corporate overlords.
And from what I heard on TV today they are putting something in this bill to prevent it from being overturned, ever.
That falls under the category of "Nice try". The Supreme Court will rip that silliness to shreds in 30 seconds. (And that's why we have unelected judges, incidentally.)
Once again, libs fail to comprehend that you don't have to like everything about the choices that the party makes.
No, I don't like this.
Having said that, it is very possible to get around it. People have been doing it for a long time. In this day and age, you really need to know how to work your way around the internet. If you don't yet, it's time you start putting some key words in to your favorite search engine and figure it out.
Remember: There's always a way around it. Anything "they" try to put up, someone out there will find a way around it...and it will spread. Every time.
I've already had this discussion on another thread with the exact same topic, and since people there wanted to argue and not learn, then heck with helping people out. Everyone can figure it out for themselves...or they can continue to sit here crying about a vote that we can't control right this second.
Just because they think that they can track your history doesn't mean that they actually can. You know, if you learn.
Unreal.. you don't like it but you spend two paragraphs making vague claims about there will be work around's for it. I'm starting to think that if Trump killed your dog you would say it's really not that bad because the dog was getting old.
Can't wait until the point where we can accurately match people throughout their day and enhance their overall experience. Weather you're checking the news in the morning, going to subway during lunch (identify through wifi), getting gas at gas station (through gas station tv, wifi, etc), and then hit the consumer based on their interaction with comcast/direct tv/samsung tv/etc when they get home.
This is going to be epic.
TRUMP IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! on this one....on everything else, he's still an idiot
That falls under the category of "Nice try". The Supreme Court will rip that silliness to shreds in 30 seconds. (And that's why we have unelected judges, incidentally.)
We hope so, but let the Republicans put two nut bag federalist society judges on SCOTUS and we are screwed for the next 40 years, our only strategy will be to try to keep cases from going to the Supreme Court.
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