Tuesday, August 08, 2006

AOL screws up and publishes sensitive search information

aug 7th, 2006

interesting little preview of the kind of information google (and the US govt's NSA) has on your search behavior online.

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/aol-search-data-shows-users-planning-to-commit-murder/

beware of being too candid online. it might be a good idea to use anonymizers such as shysurfer.com to cover your tracks if you are slightly paranoid. especially if you occasionally check out porn sites, or terror sites, or whatever.

or, in india, if you read any pro-hindu sites. according to the UPA govt, hindu = terrorist


1 comment:

EkSh00nyaSh00nya said...

>>Only Indian allies are Japand and Korea...

indianpatriot...these guys are too dependent on US and its allies to do anything on their own...India would be a fool to count on them...rather IMO, pls. do let me know what you think, only one nation is in a similar situation as ours, and thats Russia...it is an emerging power, whom the West wants on its side...at the same time berating and pontificating @ every giving opportunity, esp. when so-called issues like 'human-rights' and 'democracy' are involoved (eg. Cheney grandstanding recently to which Putin gave a befitting reply)...Putin, whose an ex-spymaster himself, knows the kind of chicanery and deception practiced by the West...he won't be fooled by these theaterics (unlike our 'honest' & 'upright' -- my foot -- leader Mask Moron Singh, whose more interested in playing subservient to his Western masters -- and mistress), Russia is also facing the threats of terrorism and heat of growing hegemony of China...so it would be in our interest to forge alliances with nations who face the same kinda problems as ours...and who are not a threat, esp. militarily, to our interests...and with whom we can form partnerships that can be mutually beneficial...countries like Russia, Brazil, Venezuela (for energy), South Africa et al...

Basically we have to remember that nobody is our friend...and in diplomacy only ur own interests are supreme so that means we have to stop pontificating and being preachy to the world...so that we can get what we want ...btw, who the hell are we to tell others as to how they should live or conduct their own state of affairs, unless they tend to harm our interests in any way -- read B'desh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan...we have 1 billion of our own who need to be taken care of...we need to forge alliances with nations who will further our interests while making clear to them simultaneously that we have no interest in making them unstable, rather we can share our knowledge, technical know-how with them to help them kickstart their economies, which btw will open up opportunities for Indian companies and I sincerely hope, given India's track record that, they will agree to it.

Basically, my point is...whatever floats the boat...to achieve what we want..and too much relying on the West for fight our battles and enemies IS a pipe-dream as well as akin to living in a fool's paradise.