[LINK] 'eBusiness Slowing Down b/c of security, privacy'

[tal]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 17:37, Daniel Rose wrote:

> I'd like Link's opinions on this, has it got any "wow!" or are we all
> jaded and cynical and take this for granted?
> <http://www.eliyon.com>
> 
> It's a 24 million entry who's who/where/why/was, aggregating (and
> caching!) public info from the net.
> 
> I certainly hope noone objects to me posting these, since it is or was
> all on the net anyway.
> 
> Tim Lister:
> <http://networking4.eliyon.com/PeopleFinder/PersonDetail.asp?PersonID=60
> 9119732>

this has no "wow" factor for me, as the only contact is from the local
greens groups contact list which is *intended* to be public, so that
people with queries can contact the secretaries of their local groups,
in this case me (see alternate signature below).

i do have footprints all over the net from my infestation of the last 20
years, in fact i was in the original White Pages under "tal", so it
seems odd that they didn't catch me at a number of places i currently
have interests, from north america to norway, and i even provide some
friends who need privacy with a crude anonymizing service through the
domain name i own, which i thought would have cross-referenced through
to this account, which is where a traceroute would get chopped off at
the bounce/remail point.

however, i am a little miffed that i have been put into a database with
asking my permission, and as it would be relatively easy to cross
reference other emails and links, the implications for the future are a
little alarming.

thank you for bring this to my attention.
-- 
Tim Lister
South Sydney Greens
(02)9557 4050
secretary at ssg.nsw.greens.org.au
http://ssg.nsw.greens.org.au
"Think Globally, Act Locally"