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History Of Lyrics That Aren’t Lyrics (by collectivecadenza via Adam) “As George Orwell wrote, in Oceania, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Lord help us if Mr. Gates’s and Mr. Khan’s History ever becomes the universal template that controls students’ knowledge of the past—thereby affecting the choices they make in the future.” ” This data obliteration is something that really is avoidable now, and yet, we let it happen on a near-constant basis. Most newspaper stories from the terrorist attacks in 2001 come up as 404s, beyond the reaches of the Archive.org project, or Google’s search engine cache. What I would like to see is a proposal from Google, or some other well-intended Web entity, such as Amazon, to offer a solution, embedded in today’s modern browsers, as an option, that solves for intentional or unintentional content deletion. All those links that I provided back to Steve Rubel’s MicroPersuasion blog from 2006 to 2009 should automatically be detected as dead, and then presented, to the best of the tech’s ability, as they originally were, using Google cache or S3, Archive.org or something. And yes, I’d love it if somebody like Google or Microsoft would also give Twitter or Facebook a helping hand to get their own search archives into something useful.” “… Because accepting the other side’s narrative amounts to destroying your own, there can be no compromise.” “… An attacker — perhaps an ISP instructed by law enforcement or a government to engage in such surveillance — would first have to develop a list of potential sites that the target might be visiting, or that it was interested in monitoring. It would then run the Tor system itself, testing the way these sites appeared when accessed through Tor, developing a database of “fingerprints” associated with the sites of interest. Once the target of the surveillance went online, the eavesdropper would capture the packet stream as it crossed the local network, and compare the source data with its fingerprint database using pattern-recognition software. Any match would be only statistical, giving somewhere between 55 percent and 60 percent certainty, Herrmann said — not enough to provide hard evidence in court, but likely more certainty than many people seeking privacy might be comfortable with. Different online destinations will carry different susceptibility to fingerprinting, of course. Unusual sites, with characteristics such as very heavy or large graphic use, can be more easily identified, Herrmann said. By the same token, the easiest way for a website to fool such an eavesdropper would be to make its site look as closely as possible like another popular site — mimicking the look of the Google site, for example, one of the most commonly accessed pages on the web.” “… Next time you’re squinting at your mass-market copy of Dan Brown’s latest wishing the pages were just a smidge roomier, blame the medievals for not having bigger sheep.” 
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