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Hamish
Salem, Oregon
Age: 67
Jan 29, 2010
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Re:#7048, Printer Identification
Those "yelloow dots of mystery" are to identify colour printers that are being used to produce counterfeit currency. To generate an anonymous letter, print it on a black-and-white printer. Or produce a black-and-white photocopy using a copier set to produce only two shades of grey: black and white.
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| 7055. |
Marc
Seattle, Washington
Age: 52
Jan 29, 2010
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LLC Realty Purchase
When purchasing realestate in the name of a LLC would a SSN or TIN/EIN be required?
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No.
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| 7054. |
Michael
Columbus, OH
Age: 38
Jan 29, 2010
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7051: Infragard
Just to fill you in on this, in the early days, Infragard was trying to fill a void that lacked between the federal government and private companies pertaining to communications about security threats and really to develop connections between security teams, government and corporate alike. After about 3 years, this function started to become more about information security awareness. The fb1 already keeps in touch with security teams at particular institutions; banks, airports, telecommunications. Infragard has not really amounted to much in several years and I would advise that no one be overly concerned about what this group does. They are just resume' filler for corporate IT security people looking for new jobs.
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| 7052. |
Pete
Hong Kong
Age: 27
Jan 29, 2010
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re: good anonymous email services
This is for Michael, q# 7049. The short answer is that there are not any that are very good. I find safe-mail.net to be the easiest and best though. The is also a new outfit I am excited about - countermail.com - but it's not known when they will be past beta-testing mode. I actually wrote something on this topic you may find insightful (see link).
Submitted Link #1: http://privacyoriented.baywords.com/2009/08/28/the...
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| 7051. |
Drake
LA, CA
Age: 34
Jan 29, 2010
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6927 - Infragard
Rex mentioned the public/private partnership between the FBI and corporations at Infragard (dot) com. Their members include public utilities, banks, technology companies, etc. The link below is a story about the kinds of information they are focused on.
"Many of the world’s critical infrastructures were built for reliability and availability, not for security."
Submitted Link #1: http://cicentre.net/wordpress/index.php/2010/01/28...
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| 7050. |
Drake
LA, CA
Age: 34
Jan 28, 2010
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Forfeiture Scam
My posts keep sounding anti-government or anti-law enforcement. Don't get me wrong. A good person - who happens to be employed as a cop/government official - is a great friend to have. Some of the players are bent, many of the rules are not logical or realistic, and all of the organizations/bureaucracies have a rotten core.
Frustration at the system leads to ideas like that in the link below - stabs in the dark, wild, uncontrolled, and ultimately illegal.
Submitted Link #1: http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/the-forfeitu...
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| 7049. |
michael
chicago illinois
Age: 56
Jan 28, 2010
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good anonymous email services
ok obviously hushmail is comprimised has anyone had any good luck with an anonymous email service outthere. Mail vault is to unreliable. Also any vpn service that individuals would recommend i have used smart hide however im looking to switch over just to mix things up. Any suggestions greatly appreciated happy hiding all
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| 7048. |
Robert
Rialto, CA
Age: 47
Jan 28, 2010
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Printer identification
There are some printers out there, HP that I know of, that mark each page printed with unique identification. I found this link below.
So sending anonymous letters is easily trackable especially if you bought your printer with a credit card.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.instructables.com/id/Yellow_Dots_of_Mys...
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| 7047. |
jay
phoenix,az
Age: 35
Jan 28, 2010
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How traceable is your browser?
Combined with your web browser's user-agent, accept-language, and other HTT P header information as part of each request as well as some system information obtained by JavaScript, this site [below] shows that your browser/OS is uniquely identifiable without using a single cookie or needing the same IP address on a subsequent hit should a web site desire to track unique visitors. Besides the JavaScript, you can control if you choose the data in the H TTP headers such as the user-agent if you choose, but along with an IP address, there is almost no way NOT to be uniquely identifiable if you browse without a proxy or some intermediary filter. For the truly paranoid, disable JavaScript and go through a proxy, or use a common prebuilt machine for your anonymous coffee shop web browsing so your browser fingerprint "blends-in".
Submitted Link #1: http://panopticlick.eff.org/...
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| 7045. |
Hamish
Salem, Oregon
Age: 67
Jan 28, 2010
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Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users Choose
For people concerned about privacy, the Google Toolbar is a disaster. See the article at the link below, which concludes:
I’ve run Google Toolbar for nearly a decade, but this week I uninstalled Google Toolbar from all my PCs. I encourage others to do the same.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.benedelman.org/news/012610-1.html...
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| 7044. |
Richard
Park City, UT
Age: 30
Jan 26, 2010
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Google Voice and Ring Central
If you have Google Voice that gives you a free alternate number, there is now good iPhone integration so you can call from that number instead of your true number: m.google.com/voice
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| 7043. |
Alan
austin, TX
Age: 29
Jan 26, 2010
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Trust
Does one need a lawyer to create a trust or can this be easily done with the self-help books that are out there. To my understanding, a trust can be made by anyone and is not submitted anywhere, just stamped by a notary and mostly only disputed upon expiration of the author(s). Is this correct?
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You need an attorney. Each state is different. Some states require two witnesses. Some states require that your name must be in the title of the trust! A trust is not as simple as you think. (If it were, I'd be recommending trusts for vehicle ownership instead of LLCs, especially for NY state!)
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| 7042. |
Kent
Dallas TX
Age: 54
Jan 25, 2010
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alternate names
Hi Mr. Luna -- HTBI is a great book! There's one issue I'd like to clarify, about choosing a fictitious or alternate name.
In some places, your book recommends making up a name, preferably a common one to make it harder to trace. But in other places, the book recommends using a variation on one's real name, such as using the middle name instead of last, maiden name, etc. Is one approach better than the other; or does it depend on the intended use? Hope you can clarify. Thanks! -K.
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It depends entirely on the intended use. You alone can decide which method to use.
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| 7041. |
Jean
Bronx, NY
Age: 44
Jan 25, 2010
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Plates
If one has registered the car under the LLC, but it has been required to give a SSN or EIN with the state DMV and my SSN was provided, will that be attached to a license plate check run by a policeman?
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Almost certainly NOT.
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Carson
St. Clair Shores, MI
Age: 32
Jan 24, 2010
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re:DL post
Did the poster mean to say when a police officer types in your LICENSE PLATE NUMBER, they can easily obtain your social security number, if the vehicle is merely registered in your name?
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I assume they can bring up the data on your driver's license. Often that will include your SSN.
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| 7038. |
Alan
Austin, TX
Age: 29
Jan 23, 2010
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DL
I think someone asked a while ago if the police can see your SSN when they type in your DL, the answer is yes! [But] if you have your vehicle under a company name, they have to pull you over first and get your name, b-day and DL#.
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| 7035. |
Sebastian
Knoxville, Tn
Age: 59
Jan 20, 2010
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Online privacy (FACEBOOK)
Interesting post on privacy.
Submitted Link #1: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/01/what-would-a-worl...
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Excerpt: "According to researcher Larry Ponemon of The Ponemon Institute, Facebook has hypnotized even the most private people , an elite group he calls "privacy-centric." They make up only 8 percent of the population. These folks won't even sign up for supermarket loyalty cards, but they will post pictures and tell stories on Facebook. In fact, they are so mesmerized that, untrue to their nature, they don't even spend more time tweaking their Facebook privacy settings than regular users."
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| 7034. |
Sebastian
Knoxville, TN
Age: 59
Jan 20, 2010
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7030 Printer Memory
After looking up the printer specifications on the HP site: the maximum resident memory is 8 Kbytes. There is also about 1.5 Kbytes of input buffer memory and 6 Kbytes of output buffer memory. Accessing memory in these printers is hard.
With these small memory sizes, just print another document after the one you want to hide; the previous storage will be flushed to make room for the next document.
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Marissa
San Mateo, CA
Age: 42
Jan 20, 2010
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For Michael, #7025
Regarding telemarketers, did you put your old number on the Do Not Call list?
I'm assuming you've already read "How To Be Invisible" by J.J. Luna. His book was originally recommended to me by someone at privacyrights.org. If you go to their website, you'll find a lot of basic information on protecting your privacy.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.privacyrights.org/...
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Marc
Seattle WA
Age: 52
Jan 20, 2010
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Printer Memory
Do printers in any way store the documents that they print? If I want to print something out from my laptop could someone examine the printer and find the document in memory? I am using HP LaserJet 4's
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