Aug
22

internet//advice

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This video is in response to AOL’s quiet and sudden disclosure of the searches a fraction of their users had performed. Searches about shemales, sex with animals, illegal drugs and how-to-murder searches have been found in the database.

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Well, it’s just a joke.

But you know, he is quite right about passwords. Most people are using passwords that are easy to guess such as ‘password’ and birthdates. If you have no idea what. Oh yeah, and the Golden Palace bit.

I don’t think the defragment part is right though. It’s senseless, defragmentation doesn’t really increase security – at least I don’t see how. Please tell me how it can help if you do know.

About the searches on the internet, an average user shouldn’t worry. But if you’re searching for unsual things that the government need not know about, I suggest you do it with an anonymous proxy. If you don’t know what that is, then don’t abuse the power of search engines to aid in finding animal sex pictures for example.

America is watching. Be careful on what you search. Now I have to put ‘I AM NOT MR. DEW’ in every first search I perform.

[On a side note: You can watch the first episode of The Colbert Report on YouTube. It's 21 minutes.]

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