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In reply to the discussion: We have a PIRACY problem, not a PRIVACY problem online. [View all]Agschmid
(28,749 posts)120. You are disrupting GD.
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I and many others put them out over the internet all the time, and you don't know them
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Aug 2013
#5
the fact that you keep saying that they are safe publically on the internet
VanillaRhapsody
Aug 2013
#31
ipso facto, you must certainly NOT consider it INHERENTLY unsafe then.
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Aug 2013
#93
Agreed, and exactly what the ACLU has been trying to do for years now
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Aug 2013
#13
This is too funny! pointing out some basic internet FACTS and you are reduced to insults?
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Aug 2013
#21
You would NEED to have some basic Internet FACTS before you tried to point some out!
VanillaRhapsody
Aug 2013
#32
Like i said PIRACY. Good thing us Americans have the 4th Amendment
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Aug 2013
#33
If you put that information on the Internet...it is not private anymore..
VanillaRhapsody
Aug 2013
#90
I, being a guy who calls himself "lumberjack" was able to cleverly infer a number of useful bits.
lumberjack_jeff
Aug 2013
#60
You guys are confusing my use of the term "PIRACY" with copyright infringement
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Aug 2013
#63
If you can't tell where a posted link goes, how do you ever find out anything?
hobbit709
Aug 2013
#46
Apparently you don't know that you can pay people to do background checks online...
VanillaRhapsody
Aug 2013
#95
Did you know that anyone who sings "Happy Birthday to You" in a restaurant is a pirate?
lumberjack_jeff
Aug 2013
#53
What you are calling "piracy" is better understood as malicious hacking or identity theft. nt
lumberjack_jeff
Aug 2013
#62
Yep, and that's exactly how I would charecterize the illegal spying
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Aug 2013
#68
The current controversies are mostly that the service providers are _giving_ the info to the gov't.
limpyhobbler
Aug 2013
#77
I'd argue that the bigger one is them stealing/pirating/illegal copying of our data
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Aug 2013
#80
Oh ok. So we're both talking about the same thing, just calling it by different names.
limpyhobbler
Aug 2013
#92