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Re: It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you (CNN)

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From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 07:21
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On Fri, 2018-03-30, Mike Spencer wrote:
>
> ma...@mail.com writes:
>
>> I remember, when I used it more, Stallman had a thing in Emacs, using
>> which you could pepper your messages with strings like "AlQueda",
>> "Din" or "Marx".. That was in a better time, I wouldn't really like
>> guantanamo.
>
> M-x spook.  You really have to keep updating you spook.lines files to
> avoid anachronistic insertions, though.  Kennedy, Qadaffi and Waco are
> ancient history.
>
> Today, you can probably trigger the digital watchdogs just by
> including a long string of base64-encoded random bytes.  They'll get
> archived as possibly encrypted subvesriveness.

I haven't paid attention, but I thought they were more into
collecting metadata these days, like who's talking to whom,
and when.

/Jorgen

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