That's interesting because I block all publicly facing ips from DigitalOcean from every server I own. the amount of spam and hackers probing from there ips is beyond a joke. Anyway thanks for your input.
These people are dinosaurs. That is the most scary aspect. Imagine if Dinosaurs still existed but new how to search internet databases to find their targets!
The problem as I see it is that no matter how much they store. If they so wish they can search for you!
The potential for abuse is just to high.
Originally I was so what some random stranger at some big department might have some info on me.
A friend said to me once "think of your worst enemy, whoever that may be, if they had every piece of communication you ever sent on the internet or if they had list of every website you ever went to, would you be worried?"
That clarified things for me. Not that I have enemies in that respect (at least I hope not) but if I did would I want them to have access to this information.
We do not know who has access to this info and business leaders (especially in countries other than the US) are having their conversations monitored and that info is apparently being passed to business leaders in the US.
I take it a step further I use vmware to run a different instance of windows and go through a proxy. Paranoid? yes! but let Google track that particular me and not the real me.
Nice win but I have to say the bit that really got me excited was this
"My dream is that when big companies hear about how friggin’ easy it is to block a patent application, they’ll use Ask Patents to start messing with their competitors. How cool would it be if Apple, Samsung, Oracle and Google got into a Mexican Standoff on Ask Patents?"
I understand where you are coming from but we really need to focus on the bigger picture. Let us all just get back to hating Google for being the most evil company that has ever existed and live in peace.
I completely agree with this and anyway many of the caching programs are starting to understand that nginx is out there. I am pretty sure w3 total cache does.
However since using nginx I have done away with caching as it is so much faster than apache + caching that I don't really need it.
One year away from being annoyed at the web to being blown away by yahoo.com. A friend searched for some game or something on yahoo and I was like what is the trickery?
Matt aren't you getting sick of having to constantly defend the actions of your employer? You seem like a positive guy but it must be getting even you down.
