Phoenxx
Posts: 253
Joined: 1/1/2004 From: Swift Current Status: offline
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When you send an email, it leaves your computer and goes to your ISP's mail server. It then is transferred to a secondary server. From there it is routed through several more until it finds the server of the recipient. It is stored there until that person retrieves it. At any point it can be read, saved, stored, changed and … If you’re talking on IRC something similar happens. There is no privacy online. Hell there are key loggers, spy ware, Trojans and on and on. And then there are the defences, encryption programs for irc, email, spy sweepers and more. However, if your boss, priest, mom doesn’t know your screen name your fairly safe. If however they do, why did you tell them? And if they walk up to you saying I saw your picture on this website ask them what they were doing looking for you and why did they check that site out? Who knows maybe they will be more understanding then you think. I use my real name. Go ahead do an internet search on Tony heh. And out of 5 pages of results that showed up on a Google search almost all were from ALT.com Personally, I’m not too worried about tons of people sitting out there reading my words, learning what I think and who I am. After all isn’t this why we post here? Plus what if your mom, boss, priest join the site? Then they can log on and see everything anyway. How can you put a stop to that too? Tony
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