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It’s been known for some time that Skype, the popular standalone peer-to-peer application specializing in providing video chat and voice call services was initially developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), contrary to the official story regarding its origins. Marketed for its groundbreaking proprietary Internet telephony (VoIP) protocol, its real purpose was data mining and domestic surveillance.
In retrospect, this should not be surprising; in post-Edward Snowden America, even publications like The New York Times have reported on tech companies like Yahoo, Google, Facebook, YouTube, AOL, Apple and many others as having cooperated with an increasingly intrusive (and in some cases criminal) government in crafting its Internet surveillance programs.
How surprised Silicon Valley and the government must have been to discover that through social media, most people were willing to simply give away just the kind of information in which these entities were interested! And we probably don’t have to tell you that the current administration has stretched the limits of intrusion upon personal privacy to criminal proportions…
The data that has been collected through these and other means (such as illegal NSA domestic surveillance programs brought to light in recent years) has been used to harass and persecute private organizations, political organizations, businesses, and private citizens.
The bottom line is that your Skype conversations are anything but private; if you’ve heard names like Max Kelly, Project Chess, or Prism, you know this to be true. And since government agencies build networks and databases based upon nodes of activity and the online routines of groups of people, engaging in unsecure online communications is comparable to a person having indiscriminate, frequent, unprotected sex.
So… what’s a user to do?
Product Information
Knowing what we know today, would you have indiscriminate, unprotected sex? Probably not. So when you make a phone call, do you discuss private information of a personal nature, or business, or your investments, or your credit card info?
Did you know how easy it was for someone to listen in to your Skype calls?
Protect yourself with the only product that the world’s real whistleblowers believe in – You might know their names – Julian Assange of Wikileaks, former CIA agent and whistleblower extraordinaire Scott Bennett, and the guy with all the information – Edward Snowden. If these fellows want protection they go to one place in Canada (of all places) for it – The Pink Pagoda.
What is it?
The Pink Pagoda is proprietary to the Bethune Institute of Canada and China, and was developed by people in the fields of intelligence and communications. Can’t ask for more expertise than that…
Click image to see Breitbart article
Why is Canada a good place to hide stuff?
Because American law doesn’t apply. Your goodies are safe from the prying eyes of an ever-intrusive government which has already proven that it has no respect for your privacy.
How does it work?
Well, if we told you that, we’d have to kill you. But seriously – if we were to disclose that, it would compromise our ability to protect you and ensure your online privacy. The method is proprietary, but works much in the same way other online services to which customers subscribe work – with a little other technology thrown in to detect when you are engaged in digital voice or video communications on any of your devices.
What does it do for you?
It renders your video chat and voice calls private (nobody can listen in). Our main concentration and launch was to be America only, but people talk and the need for personal communications privacy is life or death for folks in some foreign lands. We had no idea our utility was going to strike a nerve such as it has. Our capacity at the moment is unlimited, so we are not surprised at the number of foreign inquiries we are receiving. Ask Edward Snowden if he feels that his life might be in jeopardy; the answer is obviously ‘yes,’ and you see where he is putting his trust.
How do I get it?
The Pink Pagoda is now offering access to its secure calling utility at an annual introductory rate of $100.00 in one payment, or via monthly payments of $10.00.
"Today, Friday 31 July 2015, 9am CEST, WikiLeaks publishes "Target Tokyo", 35 Top Secret NSA targets in Japan including the Japanese cabinet and Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, together with intercepts relating to US-Japan relations, trade negotiations and sensitive climate change strategy.
The list indicates that NSA spying on Japanese conglomerates, government officials, ministries and senior advisers extends back at least as far as the first administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which lasted from September 2006 until September 2007. The telephone interception target list includes the switchboard for the Japanese Cabinet Office; the executive secretary to the Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga; a line described as "Government VIP Line"; numerous officials within the Japanese Central Bank, including Governor Haruhiko Kuroda; the home phone number of at least one Central Bank official; numerous numbers within the Japanese Finance Ministry; the Japanese Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry Yoichi Miyazawa; the Natural Gas Division of Mitsubishi; and the Petroleum Division of Mitsui."
Today, 15 September 2014, WikiLeaks releases previously unseen copies of weaponised German surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around the world to spy on journalists, political dissidents and others.
FinFisher (formerly part of the UK based Gamma Group International until late 2013) is a German company that produces and sells computer intrusion systems, software exploits and remote monitoring systems that are capable of intercepting communications and data from OS X, Windows and Linux computers as well as Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. FinFisher first came to public attention in December 2011 when WikiLeaks published documents detailing their products and business in the first SpyFiles release.
https://www.gammagroup.com/default.aspx
https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles3
"Documents in Spy Files #3 include sensitive sales brochures and presentations used to woo state intelligence agencies into buying mass surveillance services and technologies. Spy Files #3 also includes contracts and deployment documents, detailing specifics on how certain systems are installed and operated.
Internet spying technologies now being sold on the intelligence market include detecting encrypted and obfuscated internet usage such as Skype, BitTorrent, VPN, SSH and SSL. The documents reveal how contractors work with intelligence and policing agencies to obtain decryption keys.
The documents also detail bulk interception methods for voice, SMS, MMS, email, fax and satellite phone communications. The released documents also show intelligence contractors selling the ability to analyse web and mobile interceptions in real-time."
[The site IS safe. Google is warning because authorities have warned Google to make this material unavailable by posting a warning. If you click "more details" there is an open link to the material there, which is entirely safe, but which they want to scare you about. Doubtless, your visit to that link will be reported to the NSA.]
If you trust the USG, the ATF, the IRS, etc., you still might not like that customers of FinFisher could be ANY government anywhere in the world including Mongolia, Oman, Dubai, Estonia, Pakistan, Vietnam, and even Nigeria. Everyone in Nigeria is part of a criminal enterprise or two so your data could go into the hands of such crooks. If you think Nigeria wouldn't allow that to happen, ask yourself "how many arrests have ever been made in Nigeria for the infamous 419 Advance Fee Fraud racket.
"The Internet has developed a rather unfortunate infection, which is called Trolls. Trolls are unpleasant Internet vigilantes who target anyone who they feel doesn’t fit in with their own personal views on the world, and woe betide you if you actually directly challenge those views.
Trolling is a new term for an old, and very antisocial form of behaviour called harassment, and in civilised societies we have laws preventing one individual from harassing another, or from organising a group to do so.
This is where the Internet steps in and messes things up somewhat. Not only does the net give people anonymity for good reasons, such as hiding from persecution, but it also allows people to hide their identities whilst they cause trouble for others."
"Marketplace Fairness" is the cynically coined title of a bill that denies fairness and manipulates the market.
Markets need to be free, not encumbered by price and quota loopholes devised by a greedy, economically illiterate government. Sales tax is imposed by most states at the cash register. If the cash register is in another state, they cannot impose or collect sales tax. That is NOT a loophole. That's fairness.
By renaming "Sales Tax" as "Sales and Use Tax" they try to assert that the tax is due from the consumer well separated and apart from the cash register. It's crooked.
Where I live, the state sales tax is 9.75% until last year when the county added 2% sales tax to food. I'm not talking fine upscale restaurant food. I'm talking bread, milk, baby formula, vitamins, cough drops, rice, flour, beans, your family's GROCERIES!
Sales Tax is justified if at all by the infrastructure, services, and facilities furnished by the local government. That means that the brick and mortar retailers in town get: Police and fire services, meat, kitchen, elevator, deli scale, building, fire marshal inspections, courts, prosecutors, public defenders, jails, and probation officers to identify, apprehend, detain, try, incarcerate, and rehabilitate offenders who shoplift, embezzle, steal, purse grab, armed rob the retailer or his customers. It enables street cleaning, pothole repair, sewers, water supply, traffic signals, snow removal, accident response and ambulance service, tornado sirens, early disaster responders, and on and on. All very expensive services for the benefit and protection of the local retailers. Not one of those benefits accrue to the interests of the out-of-state merchant. None, bubkis, nada, zilch, zero! "Marketplace Fairness?" I think not.
Doctors, lawyers, chiropractors, accountants, therapists, UPS, FedEx, the post office, storage spaces, veterinarians (except for pet food) are not required to collect sales tax, and we users of those services are not required to tally and pay tax for their use.
We consumers-tax payers have been struggling more and more every pay period to make our ends meet since 2008. Internet merchants enable us to find bargains and broaden our choices. It is a trade off: We have to pay shipping. The state tax authority will want sales tax on the shipping, you can depend upon it. Each state, I suggest will need to hire two additional people, with offices, parking spaces, and generous benefits to administer the sales tax collections from each of the 50 states and several territories subject to US law. That's 50 times 50 more tax collectors! They want every resident to file a Sales & Use Tax Return? An army of new auditors on our state's payrolls making government yet even that much bigger than the productive working sector. How are they going to deal with creative merchants who take their fulfillment to Canada, Mexico, France, Hong Kong, or Antigua?
What about the five states that have NO sales tax? Is my state going to put 11.75% sales tax on any maple syrup I bring in from New Hampshire, crab legs from Delaware, rocky mountain oysters from Montana, or granola from Oregon. "Fairness?" Hardly. It is favoritism paid off to the legislators with billions for new spending. That's what it is--a sweetheart deal! The mobsters in Brooklyn were less rapacious as this.
This proposal is an unmitigated outrage and insult to the taxpayers and consumers of this entire nation. How Senator Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, and other Republican senators could support this just shows how badly we need Tea Party, low tax, shrink government leaders now. These "Marketplace Fairness" Republicans are sellouts with no right to our vote.
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Planning for control of your personal information after you die used to be as simple as telling someone about the desk drawer or the fireproof box or the safe deposit box at the local bank.
But in the era of smartphones and cloud computing services, that same stuff may be stored in digital formats on servers scattered across the globe. You may keep documents online or use email as a catchall for paperless receipts, insurance information or financial transactions. And don’t forget the photos, videos and musings left behind at social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Flickr.
So how do you make sure all that information — protected by who knows how many passwords — is handled the way you would like after you’re gone? Two words: Plan ahead.
Providers that store digital content are restricted in how they can disclose it to someone other than the account holder. Much of it is protected by privacy laws. And terms of service agreements for things like free email may prevent companies from disclosing that material to anyone without a court order.
“We are in a gray area right now where the technology has progressed faster than the laws,” said Laura E. Hoexter, an estate-planning lawyer at the law firm Helsell Fetterman in Seattle.
Some states have passed laws to address aspects of these issues. For example, a 2013 Virginia law makes it easier for family members to see content in cases of the death of a minor. And the Delaware Legislature just this week passed a bill that seeks to ease access to content.
The Uniform Law Commission, a nonprofit association that looks for ways to bring about uniformity in important areas of law, is also working on a law that could eventually apply to all states.
The commission wants to ease access to content while also honoring a user’s privacy wishes. It hopes all 50 states will adopt its proposal so a single set of guidelines would standardize the process for users, providers and heirs, said Suzanne Walsh, chairwoman of the committee drafting the law, called the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.
While the legal issues are being untangled you can plan ahead. Google, for example, offers a tool to help its users deal with the problem. Called Inactive Account Manager, it allows you to designate up to 10 people to receive content from sources like your mail, documents or blogs. You may also choose to have content deleted after you have died.
When the account becomes inactive, your designees are notified and receive the content you chose to share. They do not receive a means of logging in to your account.
Some lawyers view Google’s planning tool as a model to emulate.
“Other companies haven’t started doing this yet, but I’m hopeful they will,” said James D. Lamm, an estate-planning lawyer at Gray Plant Mooty, a law firm in Minneapolis and the author of digitalpassing.com, a blog that tracks these issues.
And if companies aren’t doing this for you, one of the surest ways to pass on content is to keep copies on your computer. You can make a habit of saving copies of important documents, sentimental photos, Facebook content or purchased content like music. One handy tool to capture web content is called ScrapBook, a free Firefox extension created by Taiga Gomibuchi, a programmer in Tokyo.
But if you download, make sure your material is secure. That means backing up to an external drive with programs like Apple’s Time Machine, or File History in Windows 8. Also, encrypt your computer’s disk and the backup drive. And if you share a computer, make sure your private content is secure, because another user with administrator rights may have access. Programs like 7-Zip can pack away confidential files in encrypted archives.
Some lawyers suggest including a digital executor in your will. This person is responsible for carrying out your wishes for your online content. This is no guarantee the content will be disclosed, they said, but it may help if laws eventually change.
“What would you want them to do if you were allowed to do it?” Ms. Hoexter said. This strategy includes creating a list of your online accounts, with passwords included, she said, and storing it where you can update it easily and your digital executor can find it.
Divulging your passwords is risky, of course, even to someone you trust. But there is no simple way to do this securely while ensuring your passwords are current.
Numerous online services offer features that can transfer passwords and other personal data after you die.PasswordBox, a password manager that hooks into your web browser, has a transfer feature called Legacy. SecureSafe, based in Zurich, offers a tool for transferring passwords.
Of course, putting information like that online exposes it to hackers, government snoops or even the unforeseen security bug.
Instead, you may choose to store passwords on your computer. Many programs are available, including Password Safe and KeePass. There are also encrypted portable devices like SplashID Key Safe. You can stash one in a fireproof box and give your master password to a friend or your lawyer.
The law may one day catch up with technology. But in the meantime, it’s wise to make sure you’re using technology to deal with the dilemmas technology has created.
The price of a year at college has increased by more than 1,200 percent over the last 30 years, far outpacing any other price the government tracks: food, housing, cars, gasoline, TVs, you name it. Tuition has increased at a rate double that of medical care, usually considered the most expensive of human necessities. It has outstripped any reasonable expectation people might have had for investments over the period. And, as we all know, it has crushed a generation of college grads with debt. Today, thanks to those enormous tuition prices, young Americans routinely start adult life with a burden unknown to any previous cohort and whose ruinous effects we can only guess at....
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Education and entertainment have become the same thing. It is quite an amazing racket. After WWII the GI Bill allowed so many to attend college (if qualified) that the colleges got way greedy and decided that everyone should be qualified.
College became essential to get the most menial of entry level jobs. No one ever worked their way up from an unskilled entry level clerkship any more. Once the government (that's the taxpayer involuntarily) guaranteed student loans for totally uncreditworthy student wannabes, universities went hog wild inventing the most frivolous, most vocational, most bureaucrat "easy-A" courses and degree majors passing strange.
Employers drank the Kool-Aid and hired M.A.s in Human Resources who, knowing nothing about the skills or substance involved in the work, required degrees to verify "teachability," "tenacity," and "servility." That put millions of intelligent, innovative, and extremely talented new workers out of the running for jobs with a future. Meanwhile unions were pricing themselves out of the game and fostering a culture of go along to get along and no one could stand out as a high performer.
You got lots of students studying to become network anchors, motion picture actors, artists, filmmakers, diplomats, explorers, theater critics, magazine editors, professional athletes, Marxist professors, lawyers. Real workers like firemen, police officers, air traffic controllers, sound, lighting, and broadcast technicians, investigative journalists, sports writers, worker bees in offices and retail, heating ventilating and air conditioning and building engineers, constructors, craftsmen, engravers, mechanics never got to see a college classroom unless they wee sent for "gay, feminist, racial, cultural sensitivity" training.
And yet they need tens of thousands of professors and teachers instead of a menu of no more than ten great teachers in each subject available electronically to every student and objective mulitiple choice examinations that an be completed anywhere, all at super low cost. The IT Revolution, the Internet productivity effect, and AlGore have done nothing to modernize pedagogy at all!
Get ready folks for a Big Tax Increase, supported totally by Dems and largely by Republicans in the senate. They don't think it conflicts with the Grover Norquist pledge. But the "Marketplace Fairness Act," like so much legislation over the past several years is exactly the opposite of what it's title implies.
The MFA, or Amazon tax, will make a federal law that you have to pay state sales tax at the rate of your residence (TN is 9.45%) on anything you buy through the internet, by phone, or mail order from an out-of-state merchant. That's right: Your state will impose a tax levy on your out of state purchases. It's an Internal Tariff, forbidden by the Constitution.
They will argue that their sales tax is really a "sales and use tax" that is due from you the consumer because you used something. Used something tax!
They say it is in the state law now, so you owe it, it is due, and they want to make you pay. Fortunately, without this Act, they have no way to make you pay and no way to find out (short of spying on your bank records) what you are buying outside the state. They say it is due. But they can't collect. That means, if they are going to engineer a way to collect taxes that they are not collecting from you now, they are hitting your family budget with a Big Tax Increase. And lying that it is not. Look at how much money the proponents of this outrage claim it will bring in to state revenues. That number, my friends, is the exact amount of your new Increased Taxes.
Of course that imposes a massive administrative expense on Amazon, eBay, and every other merchant to calculate and remit these taxes specific to your residence to your local political functionaries (bureaucrats)! PRICES MUST GO UP. They are going to mess with your eBay sales and force you to collect and remit taxes for THEM across state lines.
Your state of course must hire many new employees (with pensions and benefits), buy expensive software programs, computer servers, e-commerce equipment to monitor ALL this economic activity which is BIGGER GOVERNMENT. New enforcement police will be hired, armed and deployed to travel all over the country, stay in three-star hotels, eat free, and rent cars to check the books of your out-of-state suppliers.
That's what my Senator Lamar Alexander wants. He used to work for Reagan. Reagan would never abide this theft. Bob Corker has also told me that he supports this Massive Tax Increase and Enlargement of state Government. They are working in concert (complicity and cahoots with your Democrat Party Tax and Spend Liberals) to take more money from YOU and keep it for themselves! Unbelievable!
Enough is enough. Stop it. Get off our backs and cut government spending. Stop taking our money and wasting it. Stop trying to figure out how to get more money from us all the time. Give a bonus to any and every government employee who can give a suggestion to cut the cost of government and reduce his budget. Give him 10% of everything he can save. Cut the crap. You KNOW that would work. The government employee unions have been screwing us for years. Pick up on what Reagan did to the Air Traffic Controllers. Get real. Make like you cared about the voter and taxpayer instead of the parasites that suck and live off of OUR blood.
Truly, Government is theft.
PS. Control freaks like Bloomberg don't realize that we can set up business in Vancouver, China, or Tijuana to fill the demand from Americans sick and tired of being used and abused for politician's experiments. That will be good for Americans and workers in those cities, but not for the US economy.
In two weeks, I’ll celebrate my eighth anniversary writing this column. And if I do any ruminating during my 15-second celebration, I’ll recognize that one thing still hasn’t changed: there’s still no single technical level of writing that makes everybody happy.
I still get complaints from total newbies, who are bewildered by terms like “smartphone” and “plasma TV.” And I still get bashed by the gearheads, who find the column not nearly technical enough.
I think a lot about the technical level of the column. Over the years, I’ve adopted a number of tricks that are designed to communicate technical points without losing the novices–and one of them is avoiding jargon.
Why tech writers use so much jargon, I don’t know. Maybe it’s self-aggrandizement; they want to lord their knowledge over everybody else. Maybe it’s laziness; they can’t be bothered to fish for a plain-English word. Maybe it’s just habit; they spend all day talking shop with other nerds, so they slip into technospeak when they write for larger audiences.
In any case, I’m making available to all, for the first time, my list of pretentious pet-peeve words to avoid. I used to consider plain-English writing a competitive advantage, so I’ve never leaked this list to potential rivals. But at this point, forget it; any tips that might contribute to clearer writing deserve to be free.
* Content. As in, “Web content.” Ugh. If you mean “Web pages,” say “Web pages.” If you mean “music,” say “music.” Nobody outside the tech industry says “content” when they mean “what’s on your player” or “what’s on your Web site.”
* Device. You know what’s weird? Cellphone companies never actually use the term “cellphone.” They always use the word “device,” as in the wince-inducing sentence, “The user can transfer D.R.M.-protected content to their device.”
Look, I get it: these days, cellphones do more than make phone calls. But you don’t need to abandon the term “cellphone” for that reason; the meaning of “cellphone” has already expanded to accommodate its new functions. If you say “cellphone,” your audience already understands that it means “a gadget that makes calls, gets on the Internet and takes crummy pictures.”
* Dialog. The term “dialog box” is already a problem, since it doesn’t really identify what it is (a message box on the screen, forcing you to answer a question–like how many copies of a printout you want). But unfortunately, there’s absolutely no alternative. And shortening this to “dialog” is definitely a step in the wrong direction.
* Display. “Display” can be a noun (“a display of fireworks”). It can also be a verb that takes a direct object (“He displayed emotion”). It is not, however, a verb without a direct object, except in magazines like PC World: “Shows filmed in high-definition end up displaying in letterbox format.”
Displaying what in letterbox format? Fireworks? Emotions?
The word this writer was looking for is “appearing.”
* D.R.M. What’s so nauseating about this term is that it started out as a euphemism. It means copy protection, which most people don’t like on their software, music files or videos. So with doublespeak like “digital rights management,” the companies who favor copy protection think they’re putting a positive spin on the concept. And by using “D.R.M.” instead of “copy protection,” we’re playing into their sad little manipulation.
Sorry, Charlie. It’s still copy protection, and we should call a spade a spade.
* Enable. Who on earth says, “Enable the GPS function”? Only user-manual writers and computer-book authors. Say “Turn on GPS” instead.
* E-mail client. Originally, someone coined “client” to distinguish your computer’s e-mail program from the computer that dishes it out (the server). But when you’re not explicitly trying to make that differentiation, just say “e-mail program.” The only people with e-mail clients are the lawyers who represent Outlook and Gmail.
* Functionality. WOW, do I despise this pretentious word. Five syllables–ooh, what a knowledgeable person you must be!
It means “feature.” Say “feature.”
* LCD. What I hate about this word is that it doesn’t say what it is (“the screen”). And even if you spell out what it means in parentheses, you still haven’t told readers what the heck you’re talking about. (“Liquid crystal display? Ohhh, so THAT’S what it means.”)
* P.D.A. Here’s another ridiculous term–ridiculous because it’s not self-explanatory. “Personal digital assistant?” Give me a break. It’s a palmtop.
* Price point. What are you, paid by the word? “Price” alone does the job.
* URL. This one’s common, but I still can’t stand it. “Uniform Resource Locator”? Oh, thank you–that helps. NOT!
I use “Web address.” Same number of syllables, and crystal-clear.
* RAM. Here again, there’s a plain-English word that does the same job without the intimidation: memory. That’s a word that says what it means.
* S.M.S. The ultimate pointless term. “Text message” is the same number of syllables, and also says what it is. “SMS” doesn’t do anyone any good–but it does baffle the non-technical.
* Support. I don’t mean “support” as in “tech support,” although even that term is a corporate creepy cop-out (it means “help line”). No, I mean the verb, as in, “The laptop supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.”
In no other corner of modern discourse is “support” used that way. I use “has,” “offers” or “works with.”
* USB. I use this term in my writing, but only reluctantly; there simply isn’t any other term that does the job. But it’s a hateful term–even knowing that it stands for “Universal Serial Bus” doesn’t begin to help you understand what it is. Let’s have more clever, self-descriptive names for jacks, like FireWire or (for Apple’s wireless) AirPort.
* User. There are two industries that refer to their customers as “users” –technology and illegal drugs.
When you’re writing about computers, there’s almost never a sentence where you couldn’t substitute “you” or, worst case, “the customer” as the noun and thereby improve the sentence. Instead of saying, “The user can, at his or her option, elect to remove this functionality,” say, “You can turn this feature off.” It’s not only clearer, but it gets you out of the awkward “his or her” bit.
* Wi-Fi. I use this one occasionally, but only with gritted teeth.
It’s just not a good term. It doesn’t say what it means. People think it stands for “wireless fidelity,” but the Wi-Fi Alliance, which hired a branding firm to create it, says it doesn’t stand for anything.
I use the term “wireless hot spot” when I can, but only because there’s no more comprehensible alternative. (“Bluetooth” doesn’t immediately convey that technology’s function. But at least it’s better than “Wi-Fi.” Once you hear that it’s named for a Danish king who brought together warring factions, you never forget its meaning.)
And there you have it: Pogue’s Anti-Jargon Dictionary. You’re free to use it to launch your own writing careers, with my compliments!
P.S.–Set your TiVo! This Sunday, October 19, I’ll report on the Encyclopedia of Life on “CBS News Sunday Morning.” (The Encyclopedia of Life, eol.org, is an ambitious international “moon shot” of a project. It will attempt to catalog and describe every single one of the Earth’s 1.8 million known species in one place, drawing on both experts and ordinary citizens to fill in the blanks.)
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Knowing what we know today, would you have indiscriminate, unprotected sex? Probably not. So when you make a phone call, do you discuss private information of a personal nature, or business, or your investments, or your credit card info?
