Sipsey Street Irregulars: The Gray Man in the Data Mining Age. "Let the Plotters plot and let the Free men be free."

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Gray Man in the Data Mining Age. "Let the Plotters plot and let the Free men be free."

I sent this link around to some folks I care about for their reactions: How Companies Learn Your Secrets. Here's one that I agree with entirely:

The "Gray Man" idea is pure codswallop. No one is a "gray man" in the information age. The sooner people get that and just act like free men the better off they will be. . . It does not matter a damn if the Skull and Bones Society wants to kill your mama. Let the Plotters plot and let the Free men be free.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: It's amazing what you can accomplish when you just don't give a shit the freedom of others and the constitution.; February 22, 2012 at 6:05 AM
davy crocket said...: I was wondering how easy it would be to create a completely fictitious persona online,I asked a friend who is a senior IT security admin who said it is very easy.He referenced the "fake Steve Jobs". He said by using a tor server to ensure anonymity , encryption to protect confidential messages, and prepaid credit cards you can easily create a fake online persona. The methods used to track information could possible be used to create misinformation. The collecting of information is one thing but the analysis and turning it into useful product is the difficult part. The more information collected doesn't mean a clearer picture either. As for "grey" if you don't buy stuff online, use false ID, Throw away cell phones,move frequently, use cash for all transactions etc your grayer then most I'd think. Momma used to say-Where there is a will there is a way.Just some food for thought.; February 22, 2012 at 8:25 AM
J. Croft said...: Well, that's what lying and keeping quiet about your business to strangers is for. You'd be amazed how well that works.; February 22, 2012 at 1:26 PM
TPaine said...: Feel like checking something out? Look up the "My Lowe's" program now in progress. Lowe's has figured out that if they know everything you buy, they can detect what you need and when you'll need it. This includes everything Lowe's sells. What color paint did you use last year for your living room? Lowe's can tell you what color and how many gallons you used, plus what brushes and rollers you used.

And anyone who hangs on-line already knows about places like Amazon. The more you use a credit card, the more data they have on you. And it is next to impossible to pay using only cash. And remember that using cash is a tip-off that you may be a terrorist.

Freedom means bartering and staying off-line, things that most of us are ill-prepared to do.; February 22, 2012 at 8:21 PM
Buffalo Holster Company said...: I don't think I will be gray. I will be either black or white. I will choose. I will not run. I will not hide. I will die standing on my own two feet. I will face what ever comes my way, head on. I will stand my ground. Enough.; February 23, 2012 at 1:42 AM
hkgonra said...: I tend to beleive if you don't buy stuff online and use cash for transactions you stick out like a sore thumb.; February 23, 2012 at 6:49 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Gray Man in the Data Mining Age. "Let the Plotters plot and let the Free men be free."

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