Comments for Freemor's Weblog http://freemor.wordpress.com Musings of a Techie Tue, 13 May 2008 21:52:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on A Couple Quick Points of Interest by Phil http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/53/#comment-12 Phil Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:46:51 +0000 http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/53/#comment-12 Noam is one of the few true intellectuals of our time, thanks for the mention! Noam is one of the few true intellectuals of our time, thanks for the mention!

]]> Comment on Throttling fight continues by thenonconformer http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/throttling-fight-continues/#comment-11 thenonconformer Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:49:18 +0000 http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/throttling-fight-continues/#comment-11 I too would rightfully like to see the provisions that made DPI (deep packet inspection) by ISPs to be made illegal not just by the CRTC but also by the federal government now too, including by Bell , the Big Brother's false invasion of our home, personal privacy. Since we can readily know that the reasons given for the internet downloading inspections, capping are unjustifiable, what are the actual reasons now for these online now inspections too? http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com I too would rightfully like to see the provisions that made DPI (deep packet inspection) by ISPs to be made illegal not just by the CRTC but also by the federal government now too, including by Bell , the Big Brother’s false invasion of our home, personal privacy. Since we can readily know that the reasons given for the internet downloading inspections, capping are unjustifiable, what are the actual reasons now for these online now inspections too?

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]]> Comment on Using BloGTK with wordpress.com by โพส Wordpress ด้วย BloGTK « VUnKnown’s Weblog http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/using-blogtk-with-wordpresscom/#comment-10 โพส Wordpress ด้วย BloGTK « VUnKnown’s Weblog Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:39:35 +0000 http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/using-blogtk-with-wordpresscom/#comment-10 [...] Credit : Using BloGTK with wordpress.com [...] [...] Credit : Using BloGTK with wordpress.com [...]

]]> Comment on Phorm, NebuAd, and Privacy by freemor http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/phorm-nebuad-and-privacy/#comment-9 freemor Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:12:57 +0000 http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/phorm-nebuad-and-privacy/#comment-9 Thanks for your comment Jimmy. I've had my issue with Gmail and their content scanning back in the day. Before this blog. The fact that they support SSL connections for IMAP and POP, and webmail sessions that stay SSL encrypted means that e-mails would not be scanned by the ISP (the question at hand). My focus in this blog post was not e-mail security, nor being assigned a UUID. It was and is the DPI that I find onerous. Sniffing the contents of my communications is akin to a wiretap on my phone. Yes the companies involved promise to listen to just selected portions of my conversation, (but are unwilling to clearly divulge which parts), but I do not want ANY part of my conversation listened to. In my country privacy is a "right" and I do not appreciate ISPs or some other company trying to do an end run around my rights. E-Mail and privacy is another huge and complicated issue in and of it self. The truth of the matter is the 99.9% of e-mail is "in the clear", stored, and scanned. Yahoo, MSN, ISPs, Etc have virus and spam scanners. Spam scanners most definitely look at the contents of the e-mail. They also will almost definitely have a system of regular back-ups so the e-mails will be stored. If it were up to me every e-mail client would support PGP/GnuPG so that I could send all my e-mails both signed and encrypted, instead of just digitally signed which I do now. All that said, thanks for bringing this up. It is important for people to be able to look into thing like this before they make such a choice. I do however feel it is equally important that they realize that e-mail is like a post card not a letter. Anyone along the chain of it's transmission could read it if they choose, even when I have a SSL connection to the E-mail server that only protects me from my ISP. Once the e-mail leaves google, yahoo, MSN, Fastmail, what have you the chances are extremely high that it will be traveling in the clear on an unencrypted connection. The current e-mail system is fundamentally insecure, and everyone should keep that in mind when writing e-mails. Thanks for your comment Jimmy. I’ve had my issue with Gmail and their content scanning back in the day. Before this blog. The fact that they support SSL connections for IMAP and POP, and webmail sessions that stay SSL encrypted means that e-mails would not be scanned by the ISP (the question at hand).

My focus in this blog post was not e-mail security, nor being assigned a UUID. It was and is the DPI that I find onerous. Sniffing the contents of my communications is akin to a wiretap on my phone. Yes the companies involved promise to listen to just selected portions of my conversation, (but are unwilling to clearly divulge which parts), but I do not want ANY part of my conversation listened to. In my country privacy is a “right” and I do not appreciate ISPs or some other company trying to do an end run around my rights.

E-Mail and privacy is another huge and complicated issue in and of it self. The truth of the matter is the 99.9% of e-mail is “in the clear”, stored, and scanned. Yahoo, MSN, ISPs, Etc have virus and spam scanners. Spam scanners most definitely look at the contents of the e-mail. They also will almost definitely have a system of regular back-ups so the e-mails will be stored.

If it were up to me every e-mail client would support PGP/GnuPG so that I could send all my e-mails both signed and encrypted, instead of just digitally signed which I do now.

All that said, thanks for bringing this up. It is important for people to be able to look into thing like this before they make such a choice. I do however feel it is equally important that they realize that e-mail is like a post card not a letter. Anyone along the chain of it’s transmission could read it if they choose, even when I have a SSL connection to the E-mail server that only protects me from my ISP. Once the e-mail leaves google, yahoo, MSN, Fastmail, what have you the chances are extremely high that it will be traveling in the clear on an unencrypted connection. The current e-mail system is fundamentally insecure, and everyone should keep that in mind when writing e-mails.

]]> Comment on Phorm, NebuAd, and Privacy by Jimmy Mann http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/phorm-nebuad-and-privacy/#comment-8 Jimmy Mann Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:10:25 +0000 http://freemor.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/phorm-nebuad-and-privacy/#comment-8 Right - so you're advocating using Gmail (which is stored and can be read by Google), yet you're scared of being assigned a random number. Right - so you’re advocating using Gmail (which is stored and can be read by Google), yet you’re scared of being assigned a random number.

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