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Uploaded by on Oct 25, 2008

People, for better or worse, have always been a little touchy about unique identifiers. Social security numbers. Barcodes. RFID. GUIDs. In this day and age of massive registration databases, of drive-by identity theft, a number can be a very powerful thing.

You may remember the sound and fury over the Pentium III processor's embedded serial number, a feature which could have been used (potentially) to track a user's computer without the user's knowledge or consent. This was back in 1999—ancient history—but it was taken quite seriously at the time. In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission was asked, repeatedly, to investigate the technology as an unfair and deceptive trade practice. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, an advisory group to the European Parliament came very close to recommending a complete European ban of the chip.

Imagine, if you will, that your computer has been branded with a unique identifier, very similar to the one introduced with the Pentium III. Only this unique identifier isn't associated with a particular piece of hardware; it's associated with your entire machine—the one you're using to read this, and who knows, maybe the one your kid uses. You can change your CPU; doesn't matter. Reformat your hard drive; doesn't matter. The identifier persists.

And this is where it gets scary.

Let's imagine that this "computer barcode" was distributed across the Internet without your knowledge or consent, linked into a massive online database containing some 60,000,000 unique device identifiers, each one representing a personal computer somewhere in the world: yours, mine, your next door neighbor's, your cousin's in Tuscaloosa, your uncle's in Paris. And let's assume that this database was billed as "fraud prevention" technology, but that it was maintained by a private company selling their services—access to this database—for cold, hard cash. With zero oversight. Zero regulation. Zero anything.

Would it bother you?

Because, ladies and gentlemen, this technology already exists.

Exactly as described above.

And it's far more common than you think.

And if you're reading this article, there's a better than average chance that you've already been infected with it (and "infected," believe me, is the word).

Welcome to the wonderful world of ieSnare.

ieSnare is quietly one of the nastiest, most underhanded pieces of spyware/malware this author has encountered, in a long history of spyware-induced pain and anguish. It is quite simply a worldwide, online, profit-driven computer blacklist capable of uniquely identifying your machine (once submitted to the database) whenever you visit any site, or use any product, protected by the ieSnare system.

NO PRIVACY...

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  • If it's based on a cookie, then the bad guys are just going to remove it. How does this make anything more secure? No one who thinks for more than 30 seconds would believe this. Oh - hang on. They're selling to CEOs...

  • Its a flash cookie so slightly different, it isnt deleted along with normal cookies so you have to know its there to delete it.

    It will link any accounts made or accessed by any devices where links transpire.

    It also records all sorts of other data, and they are very secretive as to what exactly that is, 'for anti-fraud reasons' of course.

    Run the check- guarentee you have it on your system.

    Read the info box for how to check..

    I understand your sentiments of how real criminalsll know this

  • ok so im probably being a dumb ass but i cn tfind out how to check in the info tab of this vid could u tell me how? thanks

  • No problem- the info tab is at the top right of the page, under the 'subscribe' button and my username.

    If you have any questions about this please ask, make no mistake this is the start of the next wave of internet surveillance.

  • No comments! Has anyone read the info box?

    This is serious stuff...

  • BTW this could easily link your device web on their database to that of a paedophile or god forbid a terrorist if you use a public computer to access any websites that use it.

    Profiling you and your friends, family and community. Without your consent... applied almost universally throughout the internet.

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  • @worldchangin what does this mean???...

  • PART II: Change how & what we say.Use encyption tech & private networks with hardware firewalls. Many things can be done to reduce the likelyhood of government/Corps getting things they shouldn't have.

    A lot of expense for someone to go through. Especially in this economy. It is intended that way, so it's likely you wouldn't bother.Then you'll just resort to the complacency mode. Just B docile & compliant 2 them, just so you can barely survive. No freedom,liberty & no life as God intended.

  • PART I : Having an UID is not capable of anything by itself, of course, u have 2 have a mechanism by which it's shared 2 the dB.It has 2 B "gotten" B-4 anything else can B done 2 attach any meaning 2 it.In fact,there is no meaning 4 it until the powers that B do the "attaching." There in lies the defense.But, most would have to "start all over" with all our deviceses.So we could implement the defense & help ourselves OFF the grid a bit. >> CONT. PART II

  • what happened to privacy? invasion of privacy? perhaps 666?

  • interesting stuff! Will keep this in the back of my head!

  • lol soz i said tht wrong i know wer the more info bit is heh the info on how to find the flash cookie thanks for your patience on my last comment

    with love and light

    Rob

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