Microsoft Developing Software To Identify Online Users

[Hei Hu Quan]

Apparently the cat is out of the bag and what was suspected is now being implemented. All the really bright and shiny technology they run out to the consumer has either a GPS or intelligence backdoor purpose. And it's all marketed as "must haves" with catchy popular trappings sold to the unwitting consumer as products to enhance lifestyle and "make your life easier!". You know what, they can stick it straight up their conniving asses. I live as an inherently free man, not a furtive little rat-ling afraid to speak freely and research what I wish. There's nothing to hide but outrage and the fierce necessity to be free of IllumiNazi control. Fear and suspicion is what's being marketed in articles like these, fear and self-repression at the cost of your own freedom. The bitter irony is that they are the monstrous terrorists with no regard for anything but a pathological agenda bent on breaking the will to fight for survival and defend our rights and freedoms. But instead they attempt to pervade the atmosphere with repression, guilt, fear and suspicion. Nothing more than the Phoenix Project revamped and re-deployed against the citizenry who are assaulted and driven to the corner financially, emotionally, legally and psychologically. Deprived of all legal recourse to counteract gross abrogations of freedom and semblance of a secure, progressive future. These are illegal and immoral attacks on people who've done nothing except want a better life for themselves and loved ones. By and large people want peace and to be left alone, but this is not enough and it never is for rutting fascists looking to plunder, control and enslave the innocent for power and profit.

Link: Software Can Identify You from Online Habits

Story:

New Software Can Identify You from Your Online Habits

16 May 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Paul Marks


IF YOU thought you could protect your privacy on the web by lying about your personal details, think again. In online communities at least, entering fake details such as a bogus name or age may no longer prevent others from working out exactly who you are.

That is the spectre raised by new research conducted by Microsoft. The computing giant is developing software that could accurately guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location, by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history. But experts say the idea is a clear threat to privacy - and may be illegal in some places.

Previous studies show there are strong correlations between the sites that people visit and their personal characteristics, says software engineer Jian Hu from Microsoft's research lab in Beijing, China. For example, 74 per cent of women seek health and medical information online, while only 58 per cent of men do. And 34 per cent of women surf the internet for information about religion, whereas 25 per cent of men do the same.

While each offers only a fairly crude insight, analytical software could use a vast range of such profiles to perform a probabilistic analysis of a person's browsing history. From that it could make a good guess about their identity, Hu and his colleagues last week told the World Wide Web 2007 conference in Banff, Canada.
"It could make a good guess about your identity from your browsing history"

Hu's colleague Hua-Jun Zeng says the software could get its raw information from a number of sources, including a new type of "cookie" program that records the pages visited. Alternatively, it could use your PC's own cache of web pages, or proxy servers could maintain records of sites visited. So far it can only guess gender and age with any accuracy, but the team say they expect to be able to "refine the profiles which contain bogus demographic information", and one day predict your occupation, level of qualifications, and perhaps your location. "Because of its hierarchical structure - language, country, region, city - we may need to design algorithms to better discriminate between user locations," Zeng says.

However, Ross Anderson, a computer security engineer at the University of Cambridge, thinks the idea could land Microsoft in legal trouble. "I'd consider it somewhat pernicious if Microsoft were to deploy such software widely," he told New Scientist. "They are arguably committing offences in a number of countries under a number of different laws if they make available software that defeats the security procedures internet users deploy to protect their privacy - from export control laws to anti-hacking laws."

From issue 2604 of New Scientist magazine, 16 May 2007, page 32

[Shinobi]

Yea.. TriWoOx reported on this too here http://conspiracycentral.info/index.php?showtopic=11258

Like I said though, I always knew it to be Spyware since windows 95 lol
and nothings changed - except they have improved their spying (a bit)

Only today too there was google announcing some shit like this aswell
so that can only mean that this is comming true below

Just change that 2084 date to like Now ..