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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.

this is about all the Syrian govt can retaliate with. it's not like they can physically reach and stop the USA from attacking them.

I am surprised the US is even that high!

Yeah Matt it is

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.

We can't have this.

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?"

How great would that be?