nonhocapito wrote:
I don't know about the polls (honestly I think they are kind of premature at this stage since there is not enough of us browsing this forum), but, can I ask you something? (To you and others, too, like Hoi, that are sensitive to the same issue.)
That's a common issue with forums like this one. People register, make a single post and never come back. So, I don't know how many active people are around here, but if 50 people are around these forums, expect 30~ people to take part on a poll maximum.
Why, do you think, you should use a proxy to access a forum like this one? What do you think can happen here? We are researchers and commentators, we are not criminals or conspirators. We provide a service, if anything, and some of us have provided much more (I'd say a contribute to History, and I'm not even exaggerating.)
But really, what is the point to hide behind a proxy? Nothing illegal goes on. Besides, suppose you have people monitoring these threads looking for who-knows-what. Wouldn't a proxy make them even more curious about who you are?
Also: suppose you are one of the bad guys and you want to lure all the people that are "suspicious", all those that have "something to hide", or "forbidden ideas" to expose: what would you do? You create a "safe" network where people can "hide", so that now you have a list of relevant names served to you on a silver plate!
I remember Alex Jones years ago advising everyone to "use an anonymization service". That should ring some bell, no? I think it is a Maoist-Fascist-something dictatorship strategy to apparently allow for some "secret" way for criticism, only to gather names of people to put in jails later! Granted we are not even there, we are not under Mao. Regardless, I think we can exercise our right to speech with some style... let the bad guys and their "hackers" play with "secrets"...
Why do you think that I would deactivate my proxy for this forum only?
Seriously, anyone that is using some kind of privacy protection, is using it the whole time while he is connected to the internet. I don't think that anyone is scared of you admins. It's just, I wanna be safe when I surf and I enter every website using a proxy.
I always warn people if they use some "cewl mobile phone apps" that can trace their location and other relevant private data, but they won't listen. Software nowadays is able to handle a huge amount of data.
Every provider, yea even the low budget ones, are able to make some kind of profile of your way of surfing.
In Germany they want to make it by law, that providers have to save some specific data of your connection for at least 6 months. So, they are able to read your packages, connection times and if you use internet on your mobile phone , they even know where you were on a specific day/hour/minute.
The European Union tells it's countries to do the so.
So, all in all, I don't want that the internet becomes a good way to find out who I am or what I am going to do.
What I am telling you now is something that I have told other people a hundred of times, and the answer what I always get is: "What are you scared of? Do you hide something?"
And I'm telling you what:
I seriously have something to hide. It's nothing that is illegal, nothing that would harm anyone in any way. It's just my personality, the private things in life that I just want to share with people that I am around with.
Do you want to live with a camera in your back, some guy watching you, all day long? Nah, for sure not.
People are blind nowadays. I don't know if they were blind in the last few centuries, I can just argue on what I see.
They use facebook, just to tell us when they are hungry, or smoking a cigarette or whatever. Would you ever go into some city with a huge piece of paper that has written on it: "Hey, I just had lunch before. Gonna take a sh*t now"
Would you?
About the Alex Jones story:
I'm not really into the Alex Jones bashing. I don't know who he is or who he is working for. I don't now if he believes the stories that he is telling us. Maybe, maybe not. I just know that he's probably earning a hand full of cash by making his theories.
Just remember that if you use some kind of anonymization service, make sure it is open source. Best option would be to compile the source code by yourself. There's really no thing to worry about then.