Re: Why privacy? Re: Buying a domain (anonymously) using bitcoin
I forgot to mention before: Since this topic was raised, I asked around with some people in the know with these things.
Apparently, Namesilo and Namecheap both allow outgoing transfers without exposing your WHOIS information. Some registrars, notoriously GoDaddy, require that you expose your WHOIS information to transfer your domain away from them. That is horribly crooked!
I have not verified this information myself. DYOR. Also, bitmover, I don’t want to bash Namesilo to you. I think they were a much better choice than Namecheap; and now, you know other options that are specifically oriented toward “we don’t want to know your information!” levels of privacy—real privacy.
That’s a good one.
I myself used to argue that people who have “nothing to hide” should accept taking software-controlled network cameras and microphones in their bedrooms.
Then, I realized that they do just that.
Of course, that is “voluntary”—for you—for now.
Today: China. Tomorrow: Your country.
If you don’t demand privacy now, then you will lose it altogether—forever.
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Some people should learn to read the thread, or at least skim the beginning and the end before posting.
Apparently, Namesilo and Namecheap both allow outgoing transfers without exposing your WHOIS information. Some registrars, notoriously GoDaddy, require that you expose your WHOIS information to transfer your domain away from them. That is horribly crooked!
I have not verified this information myself. DYOR. Also, bitmover, I don’t want to bash Namesilo to you. I think they were a much better choice than Namecheap; and now, you know other options that are specifically oriented toward “we don’t want to know your information!” levels of privacy—real privacy.
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Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
— Edward Snowden
— Edward Snowden
That’s a good one.
I myself used to argue that people who have “nothing to hide” should accept taking software-controlled network cameras and microphones in their bedrooms.
Then, I realized that they do just that.
Of course, that is “voluntary”—for you—for now.
Today: China. Tomorrow: Your country.
The app, which the Times examined, also allows police officers to flag people they believe have stopped using a smartphone,
Quote from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/technology/china-uighurs-hackers-malware-hackers-smartphones.html
The authorities dragged Uighurs off to detention camps for having two phones or an antiquated phone, arbitrarily dumping a phone, or not having a phone at all, according to testimonials and government documents.
If you don’t demand privacy now, then you will lose it altogether—forever.
Now I was going to write a long essay on the perils and frankly idiocy of carrying a surveillance device with closed source hard and software forged in the heart of the Evil Empires (commie and very commie), replete with references back to my own extensive oeuvre, some classical nudes and abstruse words, jumping down someone's throat who once said something in passing, but you'd probably scroll on by like the unmitigated savages you all are.
Though I may be retired, I must keep up my rep!</topic-drift>
Some people should learn to read the thread, or at least skim the beginning and the end before posting.