Freedom
and Privacy
Get your whole paycheck and put the entire income tax bureaucracy out of business, along with all its abuses and atrocities. Why would you not want to do this? Why would you not want to do this today? Hello? Anybody home? Why aren't you supporting this? Is there something wrong with you? Do you need your head examined?
What is the matter with those people in Washington? Can't they read? Maybe they need assigned reading time at the graybar hotel.
"The simple fact is that, regardless of what reasons legislators may claim, the U.S. Congress has passed more Big Brother legislation in the last two years - more laws to enable tracking, spying and controlling - than any Democratic congress ever passed. And they have done it, in large part, in secret."
If you plan on continuing to live in the U.S. (oops - even if you plan on leaving), you had better read this. You have some tough choices ahead.
Welcome! You've just discovered the home page of Andre Bacard, author of the popular Computer Privacy Handbook ("The Scariest Computer Book of the Year")
The Internet is not safe. E-mail is readable by anyone with a little knowledge, and it's almost trivial to fake messages in someone else's name.
And what do you do when you want to discuss sensitive topics? All your Usenet messages can be traced, and read just as easily as E-mail. Would you like your neighbour to find out that you are posting on alt.i-eat-peas-through-my-nose?
Reprint of Interactive Age article by Bill Frezza
Reprint of an article published in the Fall, '93 issue of The Public Interest, a quarterly journal of opinion published by National Affairs, Inc.
Silent delivery of a user's email address or username (other than for email or news posting purposes which most users would expect) seems to open a door to potential abuse -- junk email, for example.
What it is, who does it, how to subscribe/unsubscribe, and links to archives.
"The Internet PRIVACY Forum is a moderated digest for the discussion and analysis of issues relating to the general topic of privacy (both personal and collective) in the "information age" of the 1990's and beyond. Topics include a wide range of telecommunications, information/database collection and sharing, and related issues, as pertains to the privacy concerns of individuals, groups, businesses, government, and society at large."
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