-----Original Message----- From: owner-cypherpunks@lne.com [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@lne.com]On Behalf Of Faustine Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 2:16 PM To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: NetCurrents: Echelon for the Private Sector
For example, if I were to write something on a message board unfriendly to any given product or company, (say, for example, NetCurrents and their bullshit privacy-invading Big Brother monitoring services D:< ), it would likely assign my message very low score indeed and log it in its entirety, along with my e-mail address, into one of their databases to be reviewed by some marketing hack (or ???) at a later date. It might be interesting to find out who's using this, wouldn't it.
Really, this sounds awfully whiny. The answer to this kind of silliness has always been anonymous posting/emailing. In the end if you can express your view on a bullshit privacy-invading Big Brother product and have the company get a summary of the public sentiment in a form even a dot-com CEO can read perhaps they might actually hear the winds of the market changing and adjust accordingly. Avoid repercussions in the usual fashion: Mixmaster and/or header spoofing.