Azazello1313 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Most people identify themselves online by juggling a long list user names and passwords. Most industry experts agree that this approach is hopelessly broken. A few technologies have been invented to address the problem of online account overload, for example, the open standard OpenID, which lets people use a single credential to log in to multiple sites. Companies are also vying to fill the gap--Facebook, for instance, offers technology that lets people log into other Web sites using their Facebook credentials. Now the U.S. government is hoping to step in and improve the state of online identity management. In a draft recently posted online, the Department of Homeland Security outlined a possible National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace--a document that suggests how the government could facilitate a system for managing identities. The system could be used not only by government sites such as the Internal Revenue Service, but by other websites, including commercial ones. what could possibly go wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delicious_bass Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 what could possibly go wrong? +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepinmofo Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 +1 3 words: New World Order Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I really need to get on that plan of mine to start a commune deep in the woods... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 3 words: New World Order +3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMD Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I've read a few articles about how Facebook may take over everything. Google is now scared of them because whereas Google sells advertising based on the keywords you search on, Facebook can sell advertising based on your expressed preferences and hobbies, who you know, where you live, your family relationships, where you go to on vacations and all the other crap that people put on their facebook. Insurance companies can also look at your pictures to see if you smoke or drink or participate in dangerous activities. Employers can also look at your Facebook and learn plenty. I have recently searched on a couple of things (like blue diamonds or scuba gear) and lo and behold now I get advertising for blue diamonds and suba gear. Your privacy has never, ever been so small. And it is not going to get any better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I've read a few articles about how Facebook may take over everything. Google is now scared of them because whereas Google sells advertising based on the keywords you search on, Facebook can sell advertising based on your expressed preferences and hobbies, who you know, where you live, your family relationships, where you go to on vacations and all the other crap that people put on their facebook. Insurance companies can also look at your pictures to see if you smoke or drink or participate in dangerous activities. Employers can also look at your Facebook and learn plenty. I have recently searched on a couple of things (like blue diamonds or scuba gear) and lo and behold now I get advertising for blue diamonds and suba gear. Your privacy has never, ever been so small. And it is not going to get any better. Google will be launching there own version of Facebook called Google Me sometime in 2010. And for what its worth, the Chairman of the Board/CEO of Google (Erik Schmidt) is on Obama's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepinmofo Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I've read a few articles about how Facebook may take over everything. Google is now scared of them because whereas Google sells advertising based on the keywords you search on, Facebook can sell advertising based on your expressed preferences and hobbies, who you know, where you live, your family relationships, where you go to on vacations and all the other crap that people put on their facebook. Insurance companies can also look at your pictures to see if you smoke or drink or participate in dangerous activities. Employers can also look at your Facebook and learn plenty. I have recently searched on a couple of things (like blue diamonds or scuba gear) and lo and behold now I get advertising for blue diamonds and suba gear. Your privacy has never, ever been so small. And it is not going to get any better. Huh... I keep getting swedish made penis pump ads. I swear Ive never searched for them. Really... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delicious_bass Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I've read a few articles about how Facebook may take over everything. Google is now scared of them because whereas Google sells advertising based on the keywords you search on, Facebook can sell advertising based on your expressed preferences and hobbies, who you know, where you live, your family relationships, where you go to on vacations and all the other crap that people put on their facebook. Insurance companies can also look at your pictures to see if you smoke or drink or participate in dangerous activities. Employers can also look at your Facebook and learn plenty. I have recently searched on a couple of things (like blue diamonds or scuba gear) and lo and behold now I get advertising for blue diamonds and suba gear. Your privacy has never, ever been so small. And it is not going to get any better. Companies are spending a ton of money on precision marketing. Part of what the company I work for does is use predictive analytics, models, etc to help companies narrow down to whom they should throw what form of marketing for what type of product, etc. We keep hugh prospect databases with all kinds of data that can be manipulated to "predict" how consumers will "behave"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennykravitz2004 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?showtopic=322447 Like I said - welcome to Gattica. Nobody believed me then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Huh... I keep getting swedish made penis pump ads. I swear Ive never searched for them. Really... [austinpowers] Thats not mine baby, really . . .[/austinpowers] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepinmofo Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 [austinpowers] Thats not mine baby, really . . .[/austinpowers] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I've read a few articles about how Facebook may take over everything. Google is now scared of them because whereas Google sells advertising based on the keywords you search on, Facebook can sell advertising based on your expressed preferences and hobbies, who you know, where you live, your family relationships, where you go to on vacations and all the other crap that people put on their facebook. Insurance companies can also look at your pictures to see if you smoke or drink or participate in dangerous activities. Employers can also look at your Facebook and learn plenty. I have recently searched on a couple of things (like blue diamonds or scuba gear) and lo and behold now I get advertising for blue diamonds and suba gear. Your privacy has never, ever been so small. And it is not going to get any better. Of course you could just avoid giving out all your personal info on online applications like Facebook... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Of course you could just avoid giving out all your personal info on online applications like Facebook... +1 I never understood the complaints when you are voluntarily handing out your personal info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Of course you could just avoid giving out all your personal info on online applications like Facebook... it's not just that,the sites you go to are being tracked and anything you might be interested in will be peddled to you via pop-up etc... another site that is very creepy is spokeo.com, I managed to have my info removed from there...and I suggest anyone else who finds their info there to do the same... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 it's not just that,the sites you go to are being tracked and anything you might be interested in will be peddled to you via pop-up etc... Why you need to reset the browser settings to disable third-party cookies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennykravitz2004 Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 http://discovermagazine.com/2009/nov/08-yo...-be-an-illusion This is one of the best articles I have read in a magazine in awhile. Acquisti tested his idea in a study, reported earlier this year in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He took seemingly innocuous pieces of personal data that many people put online (birthplace and date of birth, both frequently posted on social networking sites) and combined them with information from the Death Master File, a public database from the U.S. Social Security Administration. With a little clever analysis, he found he could determine, in as few as 1,000 tries, someone’s Social Security number 8.5 percent of the time. Data thieves could easily do the same thing: They could keep hitting the log-on page of a bank account until they got one right, then go on a spending spree. With an automated program, making thousands of attempts is no trouble at all. How many of us know exactly what we agreed to here on the Huddle when we signed up, and checked that little box that said we read the TOS? Facebook is the scourge of the earth, digital or otherwise. Another example of just how "anonymous" the internet can be: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Why you need to reset the browser settings to disable third-party cookies. <sportscenter: did you know?> I did not know that </sportscenter: did you know?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepinmofo Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Why you need to reset the browser settings to disable third-party cookies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 New NSA (warrantless) internet surveillance plan name: "Perfect Citizen" The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program. The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government's chief eavesdropping agency, would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack, though it wouldn't persistently monitor the whole system, these people said. Defense contractor Raytheon Corp. recently won a classified contract for the initial phase of the surveillance effort valued at up to $100 million, said a person familiar with the project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_gop_liars Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/' rel="external nofollow"> Would you steer away from this post if you had to use your real name to leave a comment here? Santa Monica, Calif.-based Activision Blizzard just put that question to many of its customers. In a post earlier this week on its Battle.net forums, the game developer informed players of its popular Starcraft and World of Warcraft games, among others, that they would soon have to use their legal monikers when chatting about their in-game exploits on its forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 New NSA (warrantless) internet surveillance plan name: "Perfect Citizen" I'm surprised this doesn't already exist, given the potential threat of cyber terrorism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepinmofo Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I'm surprised this doesn't already exist, given the potential threat of cyber terrorism. I believe Obama is trying to pass, or recently passed a bill that would essentially allow him the ability to shut down the internet with the flip of a switch. Ill see if I can find the link... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 All I ever get is pop up porn. For real though, I have put my name out there on about five total things on the internets. I really don't trust anything that I can't see face to face and even then I probably still don't trust if you want any of my information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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