USENET on a tape, and future privacy
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I was just thinking. My roommate mentioned that he saw an ad for a service available in europe. They send you an 8mm tape evey week that has all the USENET traffic on it. I was thinking that a large corporation thinking of hiring me (or you, you just never know!) could pay some service to scrounge up all the USENET posting you have made for the last, say, 10 years, and run them through a filter to get a feel for the nature of the posts (assuming you were too prolific to have the job-hunters read _al_ of your posts). This really scared me, so I think I will start making more frequent use of the remailers in the future. Just my $0.02 (revalued to $15.00 with recent inflation) - -nate - -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Nate Sammons nate@VIS.ColoState.Edu (303) 491-1578 | | Colorado State University -- Computer Visualization Laboratory | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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