theSam!! Vanishes While Online!! !!
d:oP
ehh.... One can only HOPE & Dream!!
theSam!! still hopes that no one finds out about his fear of DiamondWillowCanes and theSmall, OLD Native people that wield them!!.....with CulturalImpunity in theVillage!!
d:oO !!
Actually, theSam!! says it's real easy to just flat out disappear online.
And it involves taking a stand and helping other People out, giving of $, Time, Talents etc and then essentially getting run Out of your Village!! because you basically did what you were hired to do!!
It involves helping out an Oppressed People and helping some of them deal with their Pain, and to deal with and speak the truth about their abusers.
It's about looking after theWomen & Children, and theElderly too. And others that have no Voice in theVillage!!
When you do your small part in such great work, some people, especially THOSE in power, like theState!! and perhaps, even the various Native nonProfit orgs that dot this Alaskan state tend to ignore you after awhile. But time always tells.
And in the meantime, as part of disappearing Online, just move on in life and from time to time, pop up on theRadar of thePopo and other State bigwigs, and poke & prod a little in Blog!! It's that easy.
Even some NativeVillages!! are now speaking up and speaking out against theState!! and are working against those that abuse them. And it's about time.
Because theAlaskaNatives were here first, in State!!, and it's their state.
Not theWhite's, not theAlaskaStateTroopers, not any other Police agency's.
It belongs to theNatives and sometimes, they need to take care of their own problems without theState meddling into their affairs.
We can only hope that by speaking out against theState that those thickHeaded Land, Resource & Culture thieves, that consist mainly of theWhites, be held in check and be held accountable and responsible for their ill treatment of theNatives.
It IS all about $ and Power, it is all about control. And these recent headlines from theVillages!! about StateTroopers abusing their power and theState covering up incidents will only increase.
Remember, that my 5 yr mark from leaving theVillage!! is Oct 2008.
And after that I can safely write to my hearts content about my Village experiences, and so too, with my dealings with theState!! They are corrupt, they are drunk with power and one day, they will fall from power.
Remember that power is only given to those in Authority from you by your consent, by your obedience, by your silence!!
Us VPSO's and VPO's often have to enforce local custom, local rules that in essence "trump" State!! rules and laws, but in exercising discretion we work to keep some type of "happy medium" going but it often doesn't work out for everyone; theNatives or whites.
Often when you enforce State laws, you totally Alienate theNatives. And when you
don't enforce state laws and just stick to local custom, you are seen as traitorous by theWhiteAdministration in theBigCity!!
We rural LawEnforcement are stuck in the middle of a struggle that will only get worse I'm afraid and it will lead to bloodshed.
All we can do is keep struggling and keep doing what we can to continue to honor theLEO credo, of holding theThinBlueLine!!
But it's hard to do that when even theLEO's in power inState are corrupt, this is where you get various people complaining about genuine concerns and incidents.
this is also where I come in, to fight against theState!! for not letting me continue to serve in theVPSO program after I left theVillage!! under duress long ago.
I had one AST VPSO director tell me long ago that he investigated my work and said he wouldn't allow me back into theProgram.
But nobody from AST ever talked with me, no one interviewed me and asked me what I thought, and no one took the time to find out what problems I faced out in theVillage!! and what brought on my eventual departure from a Calling I loved so well.
Even my applications to AST were denied over the years. But I'm not finished.
And those people that held me back will be held accountable for what they did to me.
I'm of the old school, of olden times when a Group held it's own members accountable and often brutally administered punishment to it's members.
Well, I am of Alaska Public Safety!! And I will see this struggle of mine through to the end. And some people also in Uniform, will eat their service pistols and pull the trigger!!
And this accountability will also include any Villagers and anyone else that worked against me, that kept silent and didn't help me these last few years.
You know who you are, Serving now throughout the State, Serving now in various agency's inCity!! I'm of theOldSchool ways, and some of the ideas and teachings taught to us over the years has Strong Moral foundations,
has time tested systems in place and unchallenged ethos,
that when you carry goodness and hope out into theDarkness, and work to help others find their way, and work to ease the burdens of others,
You wield much power and shoulder much responsibility and authority. It just happens; That others look up to you, that you are right and that you must be obeyed.
And when you deny those that need such help, or even deny those that Can Help!!-the opportunity to serve, it's as if you yourself abused the ones that stood in need of aid and comfort.
And even God himself requires your blood be shed for your sins. This I believe. This I follow, this I will enforce!!
You know I'm right.
--------------
See!?
It works wonders I tell ya'!! To be DO!! (Dead Online!!)
luvs,
theSam!! d:oD
samuel l flyinghorse
VPSO to Minto, AK 2/2001 to 10/2003
VPSO class #29, 1/2002 to 2/2002
VPSO Badge #51
now public safety at large!!
--------
Text Size
Vanishing Act: How to Disappear Online
Your fingerprints are all over the Web. (©istockphoto.com/Mark Gabrenya)
Your fingerprints are all over the Web. (©istockphoto.com/Mark Gabrenya)
Also on the Web
Slideshow: 10 Simple Steps to Protect Your Identity
Slideshow: Cybercriminals Map of the World
Slideshow: Hacking Without Technology
Slideshow: Seven Habits of the Highly Insecure
Video: I.D. Theft Cost $45 Billion in 2007
From Forbes.com more>>
Vanishing Act: How to Disappear Online
Gates No Longer World's Richest Man in Forbes Ranking
The Forbes' Rankings: America's Largest Charities
What The Lindsay Lohan Photos Are Worth
Card Sharks: The Worst Deals in Credit Cards
Life After Jeans: Wardrobe-Worthy Denim Alternatives
The Best Jobs for Single Parents
Health Insurance Hucksters Are Back on the Scene
Hollywood's Most Influential Infants
The Best Jobs for Retirees
By Andy Greenberg
Provided by
You may have forgotten about Friendster, the once-booming social networking site that faded as American Web users flocked to MySpace and Facebook. But Friendster may not have forgotten about you.
Step-by-Step:
How To
Make Yourself
Web-Dead
It still remembers, for instance, that John Smith from Salisbury, Md., enjoys hobbies including "comic books" and "copulation." And any Google user can read a glowing testimonial written to Brooklynite Sam Brown, describing his habit of walking around his apartment drunk and naked, as well as his talent for using a certain part of his anatomy as a puppet.
In fact, Friendster is a ghost town of detailed personal information: The site received only 2.4 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January, but has more than 10 million American profiles, many of which publicly display information that users would probably prefer to keep private.
Luckily, deleting your old Friendster profile takes just seconds. A subtly placed link on the bottom right corner of the "Account Settings" page will permanently delete all information stored on your page.
While you're at it, why not delete your old blog, that embarrassing attempt at literary wit that still lingers online? And perhaps it would be best to rid yourself of the Flickr account with those incriminating photos from last weekend? In fact, why not delete every reference to yourself online--simply disappear from the Web and restart your digital reputation afresh?
It's not easy, says Michael Fertik. But plenty of Web users would like to try.
Fertik's business, a start-up called ReputationDefender, based in Louisville, Ky., advertises that it lets users control their Web identity: For $30, the service will work to remove any content a subscriber chooses, using tactics that start with polite requests to the content's publisher and occasionally escalate to legal threats.
Most of Fertik's 6,000 or so customers only want a limited amount of material removed--a couple of embarrassing or defamatory blog posts, for instance. But a few, he says, want all online references about themselves to evaporate. "They want to be what they call 'Web dead,' " he says.
For those customers, many of whom have been stalked or threatened in the real world, Fertik admits that "Web death" is often impossible--references in major newspapers or political contribution data collected by the government, for instance, are practically indelible. More reasonable is trying to manage your online identity, say by removing a few unpleasant references or hiding them.
One ReputationDefender service creates innocuous content about customers, then tweaks those comments so that they float to the top of Google search results, where they hide offensive material. (See "Google-Proof PR?")
But for people who have just a few online references on community Web sites--usually older customers--it's sometimes possible to create a clean slate. "If you're 60 and above, you might be able to become 'Web dead' because you've never been 'Web alive,' " Fertik says.
Many younger users, on the other hand, have left a vivid record of their lives online by posting to user-generated content sites and social networks. And some of the more privacy conscious of those users are starting to clean up that digital trail.
More than 13,000 Facebook users, for instance, have joined a group on the site called "How to permanently delete your Facebook account." The majority of the group's members simply want to erase pages with embarrassing details when they apply for a job, says the group's Swedish founder, Magnus Wallin. Others don't like the idea of leaving personal details sitting on the Web for years to come. A few, he says, want to delete all online traces of themselves to hide from the C.I.A. or other imagined pursuers.
Thanks in part to the demands of Wallin's group, Facebook has made disappearing easier. Until recently, users had to painstakingly remove every message they had left on the site and then "deactivate" their account--an option that still left their personal information stored on Facebook's servers, though not publicly visible. Now users can choose to leave the site temporarily with the deactivation option or to contact the site's administrators and request that their records are permanently erased from the site.
But when it comes to content that's not created by the user himself or herself, completely disappearing online often runs into legal barriers, cautions Daniel Solove, a professor at Washington University and author of The Future of Reputation, a book about online identity management. Because first amendment law tends to protect free speech above privacy in the U.S., an individual can't easily demand that someone else pull down what they wrote, unless the comments are either false or overtly offensive, he says. That means if a blogger or mainstream media outlet mentions you on the Web, Google will find the page for years to come.
"Antiquated notions of invasions of privacy and the overprotection of free speech make removing content a real uphill battle in this country," says Solove.
The only real solution, argues a hacker and security researcher who calls himself "Dead Addict," is to not reveal your personal information in the first place. Dead Addict, who plans to give a talk on Web privacy at the technology conference Notacon in April, has used a workaround common to hackers avoiding the problems of online identity: To keep his controversial opinions and cyber-misdemeanors separate from his real world identity, Dead Addict has used a pseudonym for the last 15 years.
Search for Dead Addict's real name, which he declines to reveal, and he says you'll find a digital non-person: Other than a single forum comment he wrote some 13 years ago, the name offers no results. That anonymity comes from careful attention: Dead Addict has never blogged or created a social networking profile with his real name. Even his business cards carry only his first name and middle initial. "Fifteen years of keeping distinct identities takes a lot of work," he says.
But for those who haven't spent decades hiding from the Web, is it still possible to pull off the same disappearing act?
"If you already have a history online and suddenly start caring about privacy, you're in a very tough spot," he says. "Basically, there's no easy answer."
--------------------
ehh.... One can only HOPE & Dream!!
theSam!! still hopes that no one finds out about his fear of DiamondWillowCanes and theSmall, OLD Native people that wield them!!.....with CulturalImpunity in theVillage!!
d:oO !!
Actually, theSam!! says it's real easy to just flat out disappear online.
And it involves taking a stand and helping other People out, giving of $, Time, Talents etc and then essentially getting run Out of your Village!! because you basically did what you were hired to do!!
It involves helping out an Oppressed People and helping some of them deal with their Pain, and to deal with and speak the truth about their abusers.
It's about looking after theWomen & Children, and theElderly too. And others that have no Voice in theVillage!!
When you do your small part in such great work, some people, especially THOSE in power, like theState!! and perhaps, even the various Native nonProfit orgs that dot this Alaskan state tend to ignore you after awhile. But time always tells.
And in the meantime, as part of disappearing Online, just move on in life and from time to time, pop up on theRadar of thePopo and other State bigwigs, and poke & prod a little in Blog!! It's that easy.
Even some NativeVillages!! are now speaking up and speaking out against theState!! and are working against those that abuse them. And it's about time.
Because theAlaskaNatives were here first, in State!!, and it's their state.
Not theWhite's, not theAlaskaStateTroopers, not any other Police agency's.
It belongs to theNatives and sometimes, they need to take care of their own problems without theState meddling into their affairs.
We can only hope that by speaking out against theState that those thickHeaded Land, Resource & Culture thieves, that consist mainly of theWhites, be held in check and be held accountable and responsible for their ill treatment of theNatives.
It IS all about $ and Power, it is all about control. And these recent headlines from theVillages!! about StateTroopers abusing their power and theState covering up incidents will only increase.
Remember, that my 5 yr mark from leaving theVillage!! is Oct 2008.
And after that I can safely write to my hearts content about my Village experiences, and so too, with my dealings with theState!! They are corrupt, they are drunk with power and one day, they will fall from power.
Remember that power is only given to those in Authority from you by your consent, by your obedience, by your silence!!
Us VPSO's and VPO's often have to enforce local custom, local rules that in essence "trump" State!! rules and laws, but in exercising discretion we work to keep some type of "happy medium" going but it often doesn't work out for everyone; theNatives or whites.
Often when you enforce State laws, you totally Alienate theNatives. And when you
don't enforce state laws and just stick to local custom, you are seen as traitorous by theWhiteAdministration in theBigCity!!
We rural LawEnforcement are stuck in the middle of a struggle that will only get worse I'm afraid and it will lead to bloodshed.
All we can do is keep struggling and keep doing what we can to continue to honor theLEO credo, of holding theThinBlueLine!!
But it's hard to do that when even theLEO's in power inState are corrupt, this is where you get various people complaining about genuine concerns and incidents.
this is also where I come in, to fight against theState!! for not letting me continue to serve in theVPSO program after I left theVillage!! under duress long ago.
I had one AST VPSO director tell me long ago that he investigated my work and said he wouldn't allow me back into theProgram.
But nobody from AST ever talked with me, no one interviewed me and asked me what I thought, and no one took the time to find out what problems I faced out in theVillage!! and what brought on my eventual departure from a Calling I loved so well.
Even my applications to AST were denied over the years. But I'm not finished.
And those people that held me back will be held accountable for what they did to me.
I'm of the old school, of olden times when a Group held it's own members accountable and often brutally administered punishment to it's members.
Well, I am of Alaska Public Safety!! And I will see this struggle of mine through to the end. And some people also in Uniform, will eat their service pistols and pull the trigger!!
And this accountability will also include any Villagers and anyone else that worked against me, that kept silent and didn't help me these last few years.
You know who you are, Serving now throughout the State, Serving now in various agency's inCity!! I'm of theOldSchool ways, and some of the ideas and teachings taught to us over the years has Strong Moral foundations,
has time tested systems in place and unchallenged ethos,
that when you carry goodness and hope out into theDarkness, and work to help others find their way, and work to ease the burdens of others,
You wield much power and shoulder much responsibility and authority. It just happens; That others look up to you, that you are right and that you must be obeyed.
And when you deny those that need such help, or even deny those that Can Help!!-the opportunity to serve, it's as if you yourself abused the ones that stood in need of aid and comfort.
And even God himself requires your blood be shed for your sins. This I believe. This I follow, this I will enforce!!
You know I'm right.
--------------
See!?
It works wonders I tell ya'!! To be DO!! (Dead Online!!)
luvs,
theSam!! d:oD
samuel l flyinghorse
VPSO to Minto, AK 2/2001 to 10/2003
VPSO class #29, 1/2002 to 2/2002
VPSO Badge #51
now public safety at large!!
--------
Text Size
Vanishing Act: How to Disappear Online
Your fingerprints are all over the Web. (©istockphoto.com/Mark Gabrenya)
Your fingerprints are all over the Web. (©istockphoto.com/Mark Gabrenya)
Also on the Web
Slideshow: 10 Simple Steps to Protect Your Identity
Slideshow: Cybercriminals Map of the World
Slideshow: Hacking Without Technology
Slideshow: Seven Habits of the Highly Insecure
Video: I.D. Theft Cost $45 Billion in 2007
From Forbes.com more>>
Vanishing Act: How to Disappear Online
Gates No Longer World's Richest Man in Forbes Ranking
The Forbes' Rankings: America's Largest Charities
What The Lindsay Lohan Photos Are Worth
Card Sharks: The Worst Deals in Credit Cards
Life After Jeans: Wardrobe-Worthy Denim Alternatives
The Best Jobs for Single Parents
Health Insurance Hucksters Are Back on the Scene
Hollywood's Most Influential Infants
The Best Jobs for Retirees
By Andy Greenberg
Provided by
You may have forgotten about Friendster, the once-booming social networking site that faded as American Web users flocked to MySpace and Facebook. But Friendster may not have forgotten about you.
Step-by-Step:
How To
Make Yourself
Web-Dead
It still remembers, for instance, that John Smith from Salisbury, Md., enjoys hobbies including "comic books" and "copulation." And any Google user can read a glowing testimonial written to Brooklynite Sam Brown, describing his habit of walking around his apartment drunk and naked, as well as his talent for using a certain part of his anatomy as a puppet.
In fact, Friendster is a ghost town of detailed personal information: The site received only 2.4 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January, but has more than 10 million American profiles, many of which publicly display information that users would probably prefer to keep private.
Luckily, deleting your old Friendster profile takes just seconds. A subtly placed link on the bottom right corner of the "Account Settings" page will permanently delete all information stored on your page.
While you're at it, why not delete your old blog, that embarrassing attempt at literary wit that still lingers online? And perhaps it would be best to rid yourself of the Flickr account with those incriminating photos from last weekend? In fact, why not delete every reference to yourself online--simply disappear from the Web and restart your digital reputation afresh?
It's not easy, says Michael Fertik. But plenty of Web users would like to try.
Fertik's business, a start-up called ReputationDefender, based in Louisville, Ky., advertises that it lets users control their Web identity: For $30, the service will work to remove any content a subscriber chooses, using tactics that start with polite requests to the content's publisher and occasionally escalate to legal threats.
Most of Fertik's 6,000 or so customers only want a limited amount of material removed--a couple of embarrassing or defamatory blog posts, for instance. But a few, he says, want all online references about themselves to evaporate. "They want to be what they call 'Web dead,' " he says.
For those customers, many of whom have been stalked or threatened in the real world, Fertik admits that "Web death" is often impossible--references in major newspapers or political contribution data collected by the government, for instance, are practically indelible. More reasonable is trying to manage your online identity, say by removing a few unpleasant references or hiding them.
One ReputationDefender service creates innocuous content about customers, then tweaks those comments so that they float to the top of Google search results, where they hide offensive material. (See "Google-Proof PR?")
But for people who have just a few online references on community Web sites--usually older customers--it's sometimes possible to create a clean slate. "If you're 60 and above, you might be able to become 'Web dead' because you've never been 'Web alive,' " Fertik says.
Many younger users, on the other hand, have left a vivid record of their lives online by posting to user-generated content sites and social networks. And some of the more privacy conscious of those users are starting to clean up that digital trail.
More than 13,000 Facebook users, for instance, have joined a group on the site called "How to permanently delete your Facebook account." The majority of the group's members simply want to erase pages with embarrassing details when they apply for a job, says the group's Swedish founder, Magnus Wallin. Others don't like the idea of leaving personal details sitting on the Web for years to come. A few, he says, want to delete all online traces of themselves to hide from the C.I.A. or other imagined pursuers.
Thanks in part to the demands of Wallin's group, Facebook has made disappearing easier. Until recently, users had to painstakingly remove every message they had left on the site and then "deactivate" their account--an option that still left their personal information stored on Facebook's servers, though not publicly visible. Now users can choose to leave the site temporarily with the deactivation option or to contact the site's administrators and request that their records are permanently erased from the site.
But when it comes to content that's not created by the user himself or herself, completely disappearing online often runs into legal barriers, cautions Daniel Solove, a professor at Washington University and author of The Future of Reputation, a book about online identity management. Because first amendment law tends to protect free speech above privacy in the U.S., an individual can't easily demand that someone else pull down what they wrote, unless the comments are either false or overtly offensive, he says. That means if a blogger or mainstream media outlet mentions you on the Web, Google will find the page for years to come.
"Antiquated notions of invasions of privacy and the overprotection of free speech make removing content a real uphill battle in this country," says Solove.
The only real solution, argues a hacker and security researcher who calls himself "Dead Addict," is to not reveal your personal information in the first place. Dead Addict, who plans to give a talk on Web privacy at the technology conference Notacon in April, has used a workaround common to hackers avoiding the problems of online identity: To keep his controversial opinions and cyber-misdemeanors separate from his real world identity, Dead Addict has used a pseudonym for the last 15 years.
Search for Dead Addict's real name, which he declines to reveal, and he says you'll find a digital non-person: Other than a single forum comment he wrote some 13 years ago, the name offers no results. That anonymity comes from careful attention: Dead Addict has never blogged or created a social networking profile with his real name. Even his business cards carry only his first name and middle initial. "Fifteen years of keeping distinct identities takes a lot of work," he says.
But for those who haven't spent decades hiding from the Web, is it still possible to pull off the same disappearing act?
"If you already have a history online and suddenly start caring about privacy, you're in a very tough spot," he says. "Basically, there's no easy answer."
--------------------
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