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Posted by Dana on October 19, 2006, 1:01 pm
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> > 1. How can I remove the NNTP Posting Host from my posts?
> > (I'm installing OE and Agent as we speak to test one hypothesis.)
>
> If you *really* want to change/remove your NNTP posting host, then get
> yourself a linux server and a real netnews connection and a
> cooperative site that will forward your newsfeed into the usenet
> stream. That's the underlying technology, and if you do that, you can
> spoof any news connection you like. In the "old" days, that's the way
> we all needed to get our news into the queue. The only difference is
> that most posters worked for companies or went to schools who did that
> step for them (i.e. that was part of the system administrator's job).
> In recent years, ISPs have taken up that role. So, when you buy an
> AOL or NetZero or Charter or Verizon account, they have the System
> Administrator that does that job. Moreover, things like POP3 and NNTP
> have allowed them to easily extend that access onto the typical users
> Windows desktop. However, the old way, didn't go away. It's still
> there.
>
> However, you are not likely to get the privacy desire both for free
> and with almost no effort. that's why people have been so "down" on
> your idea of changing your IP. The system isn't setup to do that. It
> doesn't provide any real value.
>
> I don't know what you have posted on alt.personals and am not
> interested enough to find out. Moreover, if I did find something
> interesting you posted on alt.personals, I wouldn't go looking for
> other postings on the internet to locate more information about you.
> That would be slow inefficient amd mostly pointless.
>
> In particular, I wouldn't look by IP address, because most IP
> addresses are not specific to one person, most of them are connected
> to large sites with lots of users. The fact that yours happens to be
> your router (are you sure of that? and certain that there is not one
> NNTP host for your entire ISP--that's how my ISP works), is just an
> artifact that is at most mildly interesting.
>
> If you want more privacy and more security, you can get it by paying
> for it or by doing "hard work" and learning the way the network
> actually works. And to do so, you really should get yourself an "open
> source" platform (e.g. linux or netbsd or ...) and configure it
> yourself.
>
> I have done both. I don't read news or mail on my own computer, but
> instead login to a machine with professional administrators that take
> care of the security. That way, I don't get viruses (at least not by
> that avenue). I also have my own linux box where I can actually study
> how things work, and change them to work the way I want. If I wanted
> to masquerade at someone else at some other site, having my own box
> and understanding it, would allow me to do it. However, I can't
> imagine why I would want to be someone else (or even be anonymous).
> The only people who I don't want contacting me, don't contact me by
> knowing who I am, they are telemarketeers and spammers, who are simply
> sending bulk junk to everyone. Those who know who I am rarely send
> me useless stuff.
>
> That being said, if you really do post on alt.personals (seeking some
> sort of relationship I would presume), then you would be much better
> paying more money (or doing more work) and getting some real
> anonimity. You are not going to get enough anonymity from changing
> your IP to make it worthwhile. That's like taking a shower in a
> public square fountain and then deciding that the next public square
> over is "more private". Yeah, right....
>
> By the way, changing your MAC address at a public hotspot isn't going
> to add that much to your privacy--especially if you go to the same
> hotspot all the time. Most hotspots don't preserve MAC address
> information over extended periods of time--it isn't useful information
> to keep. No one cares that it is you posting something, unless you are
> "important" in your own right (or what you are posting is important in
> its own right). And, in either of those cases, the interested people
> will come after YOU, not after some MAC or IP address.
>
> If you haven't noticed, most of the technical content in this thread,
> has not been about giving you ways to achieve what you want, but
> instead trying to explain why what you think you want is not worth
> having, because it doesn't get you what you really want.
>
> So, if you want to change your MAC address and post from a hot-spot
> thinking you will be more anonymous, go ahead. If you give me reason
> to track you down, it won't even slow me down. The real information
> to find you isn't there (even if it is a posting that gets me first
> interested), and I wouldn't bother looking there.
>
> If you are posting on the internet, presumably you want to be read.
> If you want to be read, then you do things that make you easy to find.
> Trying to be anonymous and public at the same time is an oxymoron.
>
> Hope this helps,
> -Chris
>
Very well said Chris.
>
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