Privacy Policy and Educational Information WE ARE ACTIVE PRIVACY ADVOCATES. WE HAVE NO INTEREST IN ANYONE'S PRIVATE OR PERSONAL INFORMATION. RESOURCES ARE LISTED FURTHER BELOW TO HELP INTERESTED USERS OF MY WEBSITES PROTECT THEIR PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET. WE DO NOT COLLECT NOR USE ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED TO OUR SITES EXCEPT FOR ACCEPTING EMAIL COMMUNICATION. WE DO NOT COLLECT NOR TRACK ANY DEMOGRAPHICS EXCEPT FOR A HIT COUNTER OF HOW MANY PEOPLE VISIT EACH PAGE, SO THAT WE HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT PAGES ARE OF INTEREST TO VISITORS (NO SENSE IN MAINTAINING PAGES FOLKS DON'T CARE TO USE). THERE ARE NO DEMOGRAPHIC COOKIES NOR OTHER SUCH COVERT BUGS ON OUR WEBPAGES. THE SERVER USES ONE TCP COOKIE SO THAT THE SERVERS COMPUTER CAN MATCH THEIR COMPUTER INTERNET SETTINGS WITH YOURS. IF YOU SET YOUR INTERNET SETTINGS TO REFUSE ALL COOKIES, OUR SITES WILL STILL FUNCTION, ALBEIT SLOWER. IF YOU SET YOUR INTERNET SETTINGS TO REFUSE STORED COOKIES AND ALLOW TEMPORARY COOKIES, EACH TIME YOUR TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER CYCLES, THE COOKIE WILL NO LONGER EXIST. WE CHOSE HOMESTEAD AS OUR WEBSITE SERVER MAINLY BECAUSE THEY DO NOT COLLECT USERS' PERSONAL DATA EXCEPT BY THE USER PROVIDING SUCH INFORMATION OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL INTO SPECIFIC AND CLEARLY OBVIOUS FORM PAGES. HOMESTEAD DOES NOT USE ANY COOKIES NOR OTHER COVERT BUGS. THEY USE 1 SYSTEMS PARAMETER MATCHING COOKIE IF YOU VISIT THEIR BUSINESS WEBSITE HOMESTEAD.COM. YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THEY DO PROVIDE WEBSITE BUILDERS WITH SOME FUNCTIONS THAT ARE CONSIDERED USER-ACTIVITY SPYWARE. WE DO NOT USE THOSE FUNCTIONS. THERE IS MUCH INFO FURTHER BELOW ABOUT COOKIES, ACTIVE CONTROLS, SPYWARE, ETC. INFORMATION THAT USERS ENTER IN OUR PUBLIC BULLETIN BOARDS AND GUEST BOOKS IS OBVIOUSLY READABLE BY THE PUBLIC. SPAMMERS USE DATA MINING ENGINES TO SEARCH THE INTERNET FOR TEXT THAT HAS THE EMAIL @ FORMAT. You can prevent email mining engines from scarfing your email address from guest books by using the word AT instead of the @; entering your email like this: yourname[AT]yourserver.whateveritis . Reasonably astute people will recognize it as an email address and be able to correct the address to contact you. HOMESTEAD'S SERVER COMPUTER ALSO SENDS YOU A THANK YOU MESSAGE EACH TIME YOU POST ON THE BULLETIN BOARD AND PROVIDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS; BUT THEIR THANK YOU MESSAGE STATES THAT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS NOT USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE. IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT A PERSONAL / PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS FROM PUBLIC VIEW, SPAM, ETC (AND YOU SHOULD), IT IS WISE TO REGISTER FOR A SEPARATE EMAIL ADDRESS TO USE ONLINE; AVAILABLE BY A QUICK ONLINE REGISTRATION AT SUCH SERVERS AS HOTMAIL.COM AND YAHOO.COM (BUT BE SURE TO OPT OUT OF THEIR SPAM OPTION DURING REGISTRATION. THEY HAVE CUSTOMIZEABLE EMAIL FILTERS TO HELP COMBAT SPAM AND THEY ALSO PROTECT EMAIL FROM VIRUSES. IF / WHEN THAT EMAIL ADDRESS ATTRACTS AN UNDESIREABLE AMOUNT OF SPAM OVER TIME, YOU CAN SIMPLY CANCEL THAT ACCOUNT AND OPEN ANOTHER UNDER A DIFFERENT ANONYMOUS NAME. YOUR REGISTRATION THERE IS EXPECTED TO BE ANONYMOUS BY A FICTICIOUS ACCOUNT NAME. YOU CAN ALSO CHECK PROGRAMS AND HOME EMAIL FOR WORMS, TROJANS, VIRUSES, ETC BY SENDING THEM TO YOURSELF AT THE OTHER EMAIL ACCOUNT WHERE THEY WILL AUTOMATICALLY GET UPDATED VIRUS SCANNING. THE LINKS BELOW ILLUSTRATE WHY ALL THIS MIGHT BE OF INTEREST / CONCERN TO YOU. BELOW, WE HAVE LISTED SEVERAL WEBSITES THAT HAVE VERY GOOD INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY LIKELY TO BE INVADED ON THE INTERNET. IF YOU HAVEN'T STUDIED THOSE MATTERS WE THINK YOU WILL BE QUIET SURPRISED AT WHAT IS ON THESE SITES. THERE ARE ALSO MANY SOFTWARE PROGRAMS REVIEWED AND OFFERED TO COMBAT DATA VULTURES AND SPYWARE ON THE INTERNET; AND SOME OF THOSE PROGRAMS ARE FREE OR VERY AFFORDABLE IN DOWNLOADABLE VERSIONS. WE HAVE NO AFFILIATION WITH THESE SITES WHATSOEVER. ---------------------- o O o ------------------------ COMPUTER HIGHJACKING: A very short article about websites that plant code into your computer that changes your settings, allowing the hijacker to then load stuff into your computer without your knowledge. ---------------------- o O o ------------------------ GOOD PRIVACY ADVOCACY WEBSITES WITH LOTS OF INFO: AD-AWARE: A FREE software program that will scan your computer for advertising and other covert spyware that has been planted there. Also available FREE at WEBATTACK.COM, a great site with allot of enlightening software. CEXX.ORG: A SUPER GOOD website with TONS of info, and forums about spyware invading your computer; And product links to stop it. PRIVACY.NET . A TERRIFIC SITE FOR EXPLAINING THE COVERT NATURE OF COMMON INTERNET BUSINESS BEING VULTURES FOR YOUR PRIVATE AND PERSONAL INFORMATION. From Privacy.net: IF YOU WANT TO ACCESS A WEBSITE THAT REQUIRES AN EMAIL REGISTRATION and don't care to share yours, you can try 2 methods: (1) enter fatchance@upyour.com , or (2) you can anonymously enter me@privacy.net (or enter any number character between 0 and 9 after "me" if their engine has gotten wise to me@privacy.net) . Privacy.net will send them back a nasty gram if your anonymous registration triggers unsolicited SPAM. COOKIECENTRAL.COM : A site with comprehensive info about cookies. Some of their most informational pages are listed here: COOKIE PAL: GREAT SOFTWARE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO CONTROL WHAT COOKIES ARE ALLOWED ON YOUR COMPUTER. AD-AWARE IS A SOFTWARE PROGRAM THAT WILL SEARCH YOUR COMPUTER FOR SPYWARE, PROVIDE YOU A LIST OF WHAT IT FINDS AND REMOVE IT SELECTIVELY IF YOU DESIRE. ANONYMIZER.COM. A PRODUCT AND SITE DEDICATED TO INFORMING THE PUBLIC ABOUT DATA VULTURING AND PROTECTING USERS' PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET. EPINIONS.COM: SITE WITH SHARED OPINIONS OF ANONYMIZER ITworld.com ARTICLE ON ANONYMISER: BUGNOSIS.ORG: THIS SOFTWARE PROGRAM DETECTS ALL BUGS (COOKIES ARE A TYPE OF BUG) EMBEDDED ON INTERNET PAGES AND DISPLAYS THE BUGS TO YOU ALONG WITH THE EXACT KIND OF BUG IT IS. SAFE COMPUTING GUIDE AT ANITVIRUS.COM. YOUR EYES AND BRAIN ARE THE BEST VIRUS CHECKER! GOOD INFO ABOUT VIRUSES; WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS HOAX, LEGEND, etc. ANTIVIRUS.COM OFFERS FREE VIRUS SCANNING: PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE DATA VULTURES. A SITE FOR INTERNET BUSINESS THAT PROMOTES PRIVACY INVADING VULTURE TACTICS AND TOOLS. http://www.thewarriorgroup.com Update: ... these folks closed their front door via password. An internet search might find a way in by john doe membership registration. But you can see a spam program they promote, at the next link below: OPT-IN PRO IS A SPAM DISTRIBUTION / MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. CLICK ON THE ADDITIONAL INFO LINKS ON THEIR WEBSITE TO LEARN WHAT THEIR PRODUCTS, DATA MINING AND MIS-USING PERSONAL DATA IS ALL ABOUT. PRIVACYX.COM HAS EMAIL ENCODING INFORMATION AND PROGRAMS. WARNING: INSTALLING MACROMEDIA FLASH PROGRAM ON YOUR COMPUTER WITHOUT HIGH SECURITY SETTINGS CAN ALLOW OTHERS TO CONTROL YOUR COMPUTER, ... EVEN TURN IT'S CAMERA AND MICROPHONE ON AND OFF AT THEIR WILL. MACROMEDIA CLAIMS THAT FLASH HAD BEEN DEPLOYED (THEIR WORDS) ON 87% OF ALL HOME COMPUTERS. MACROMEDIA HAS AN ENTIRE SECTION ON THEIR WEBSITE FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. MACROMEDIA'S DISCLOSURES ABOUT THE EXTREME PRIVACY DANGERS OF FLASH ARE HIDDEN SO WELL ON THEIR SITE THAT IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FIND, ............... BUT IT'S THERE. WARNING: THE US GOVERNMENT IS NOW REVEALING (be sure to read the layers of side-bar articles where the real meat is tucked away) THAT THEIR TOP SECRET MILITARY RESEARCH LABS DEVELOPED THE INTERNET AND ARE RELYING ON THE BUSINESS SECTORS OF THE INTERNET TO DEVELOP THE SOFTWARE PROLIFERATION AND PRIVATE CITIZEN DATABASES THE GOVT INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES ARE NOW PLUGGING INTO TO BUILD PROFILES ON US CITIZENS THAT THE COURTS WOULD NOT ALLOW BY OTHER COVERT MEANS THEY'VE ATTEMPTED FOR A VERY LONG TIME; TO THE POINT THAT THE GOVT WILL SOON KNOW EVERY SINGLE ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION THAT IS MADE IN THE USA. PRIVACY ADVOCACY GROUPS HAVE SAID FOR A LONG TIME THAT THE MIC / INTELLIGENCE FACTIONS IN OUR GOVT DEVELOPED THE INTERNET PRIMARILY FOR THESE PURPOSES. OUR GOVT PREVIOUSLY DENIED IT. 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