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You Tube requires signing in

Original post made by pares, Fairmeadow, on Feb 22, 2015

I'm not on the internet much but I do go to You Tube once in awhile. Not long ago, I used You Tube to find out how to crack and clean crabs. But now, you have to sign up with your ID including your birth date which I do not like to give out for something like this, just to watch a short video.

They've lost me!

Any comments?

Comments

Posted by help
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Feb 22, 2015 at 2:49 pm

You have got the wrong page. Try this. Web Link

You must have got the page to upload your own video.



Posted by pares
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Feb 22, 2015 at 6:33 pm

Thanks for your help. I had to disable my "flashblock". Now it works great. Like I said, I'm not watching videos much . . . but I'm learning!


Posted by CrescentParkAnon.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 22, 2015 at 11:39 pm

The movie that came out recently "CitizenFour" about Edward Snowden
was a pretty God-awfully boring and vacuuous movie for the most part,
but there was one worthwhile moment, where they talked about how the
NSA, or any other "receivers" that sit on a wire where your data appears
... and that can lots of places you have no idea, can take various events
on the internet and conflate them in various ways to pretty much identify
and capture, by ID, anything you do.

By implementing packet switching technology ubiquitously thoughout
the world all of our voice and data information goes through one big
global wire that can be recorded and eavesfropped on at any time.
Encryption cannot even ensure your privacy because the computing
power that can be brought to decrypting what is important enough will
eventually be able to crack anything,.

After they do that they "could" analyze just about anything you do to
figure out your typing patterns, the spectrum and frequency of your word
usage, what books, images, ideas, political affilications you have and compile
secret files on you ... and you would never know who or what has access
to that information, or what it is.

Since you could never know who and what is looking at your data or
what motivation they might have, you would never know if, for example,
you were an artist or scientist and someone stole your work and took
credit for it. Or someone did not like you or needed to

You could for example take a look, or download a Koran, and that could
virutally associate you in some dimension with terrorists because there is
no management of sanity check on any of this "statistical logic" ... and they
have to say is "security".