Back of the Book

Sat, Jul 15, 2023 05:00 AM

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Hosts: R. Paul Martin & Pickles of the North

Topics:

COVID~19 deaths in America - 1,134,710 but it's the smallest increase in a long time.
Cell phone privacy - NYPD wants your IMEI and they'll do almost anything to get it.
Behavior - Even the universe will end, should this affect our behavior?
Mid~Summer - It'll be here for the next program.

Synopsis:

Pay Attention to Your Privacy Or You May Lose It!

We talked about a sudden NYPD policy that has the police grabbing the unique cell phone identification numbers of anyone who is booked. This allows the police to track the phone and find out about calls going to and coming from that phone. We talked about a New York Times article regarding how we should behave knowing that the entire universe will end one day. We talked about the pandemic and about mid~Summer arriving next week.

Guests:

Guests? Guests? We don't got no guests. We don't need no stinkin' guests! -

Playlist:

Barracuda - Heart
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Info / Links:

I have a Web site.
R. Paul is on Twitter.
Our program schedule, as far as we're allowed to know it, is here.
WBAI LSB Treasurer's Reports are here.
If you want to do something to protect your privacy while using regular browsers, like Firefox, you can check out NOSCRIPT which gives you more control over what Web sites can learn about you.
Search engines help us to find things on the World Wide Web. Most search engines exist not to help you find things but to allow the companies that provide the search service to data mine your searches and then sell your search history to clients so they can spam you. An alternative to getting your privacy compromised is to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.
If you'd like to keep your browsing history private you can get yourself the Tor Browser. Using the DuckDuckGo search engine is automatic with the Tor Browser, and by accessing the DuckDuckGo search engine from the Tor Browser you are pretty much guaranteed that no one can trace searches back to you.
Gnu Privacy Guard can help you to encrypt your data and preserve your privacy.
For those who need some help getting started with Gnu Privacy Guard there is Gentle GPG which does a lot of the work for you.
For the somewhat more advanced user who wants to protect his or her privacy there is the Tails OS. Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB flash drive or a DVD. It allows you to use any computer that will allow you to boot up off a USB flash drive or a DVD and it provides a lot of good security for your on-line activities. You can get the Tails OS here.

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