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Internet Bully's and Hackers: I would like to add to this article that much of the wrong doing is wrong doing enabled by Law and Lobby firms. The HP story is a great example.

But so is the Abramoff story.

Web sites should really have privacy statements and viewers of the site should read those to decide what is resonable.

Do you want more spam mail? Usually to post to a blog a valid email address is required. But simply viewing also provides information.

I personally have had a club web site hacked twice and because I know that the internet domain and IP address used to access the site are collected simply by viewing, I expected to be able to catch the hacker, who I figgered was a non club member and a smart kid being guided by an overly competitive adult. Kids may not know any better and hence can be influenced by adults.

After discussion with the site operator, who also donated the site to the club, things were progressing as I expected with the first hack until the site operator lawyers got involved.

Their involvment allowed the hacker to offend a second time. I figure 60,000 bucks worth of content was lost. I also figure there were backups but that the doner operator had been advised that if a restore were performed, the logs would be available and the hacker might be identified through them. He was made to think real hard about life for him after the hacker was arrested. The doner eventually concluded that he did not want the hacker identified.

The internet domain and IP address used to access the site are almost always collected. The internet domain is the portal through which you access the Internet, such as AOL if you are and AOL user.

But it is also the private Internet access account such as a .com or .edu if you connect through a school or business.

An IP address is a number that is assigned to a computer whenever you are using the Internet. Usually the IP address for your computer changes after you log off for a time. But often it is the same if you are logging in from a business and the network administrator has set it up that way.

Bottom line. Your Access Provider matters. Its Privacy statement maters. It will always be better for you to use a trusted provider who you pay and hence likely represents you rather than a free provider or your school or business for both internet searching and page viewing.

If Google continues to do no harm it is also a good bet for those who do not want to pay an access provide.; Posted by: mighetto Posted on: 10/19/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use