How to Foil Search Engine Snoops

[kurth]

On Thursday, The Mercury News reported that the Justice Department has subpoenaed search-engine records in its defense of the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. Google, whose corporate credo famously includes the admonishment "Don't Be Evil," is fighting the request for a week's worth of search engine queries. Other search engines have already complied.

The government isn't asking for search engine users' identifying data -- at least not yet. But for those worried about what companies or federal investigators might do with such records in the future, here's a primer on how search logs work, and how to avoid being writ large within them...

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70051-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

[ovidsen]

1. Thank you!

Excellent primer for computer semi-literates like me. I'm going to email this to friends.

[liberalmike27]

2. Well

Everyone is a criminal, until proved innocent. This is the new Bush standard, it would seem.

The really sad thing is, reams of data lay untranslated, and efforts are being spent in this area again??? Come on, remember what the focus of things was before the attacks on 9/11? Kiddie porn. Does this mean we are in for another pre-planned attack, and who's doing the planning? I still wonder who allowed 9/11 to happen, but whether by negligence, or mistake, this horrible event gets put on Bush's shoulders. And still, nothing has been done to the main perpetrator, Saudi Arabia.

[ovidsen]

3. Part of a two-pronged attack by mideast extremists

They're going to attack us with IEDs AND a massive barrage of kiddie porn.

Just kidding.

And you KNOW the US can't go after Saudi Arabia! Our American plutocrats have too much business and money tied up there!!! :sarcasm: