Cory Doctorow: Is Your Search History Really Anonymous?
Complete video at: http://fora. tv/2009/10/31/R. . .
Boing Boing editor and blogger Cory Doctorow warns that Web searches are more difficult to “anonymize” than is commonly believed, citing AOL’s acc. . .
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Well done. ForaTV. kudos!
This kind of stuff scares me because I know there are people out there who want everybody’s search queries monitored to make us “safer.” We may be safer, but I’d rather have my privacy. Every rule takes away a freedom. Don’t forget that.
In the 1990′s there was a saying that you could be as anonymous as you wanted to be on the internet. That really isn’t true. There will always be a way to identify someone by various means. There will always be those who can work the system, but the average user just doesn’t know enough to really hide.