Comments on: Military Academy on Shaky Ground

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:23:20 +0000

Even if it gets cancelled some of the things that were proposed, such as training armies from other parts of the world will continue. That sort of thing has always gone on to suit the current political activities of the time.

Speaking of digital incursion and tracking gets me back a point I was talking about the other day.

I am sure you are aware that everything done on the internet is traceable. But some things are rather more available than you might think.

For example if someone has a wordpress blog and have set it to option alert me when a reader has made a comment it obviously sends an email. But in addition to the information the user has provided name, email and blog link it also adds the IP address next to the name. I think it may also get logged in the back end of the blog but I am not 100% sure about that.

If some one has a self hosted blog they may also have the option to get at the stats log and analyse the data from there.

Which leads me onto statcounter which can provide a whole host of information about the people browsing a site. I keep mine private for safety reasons but some bloggers like to show theirs off. I don’t think there is quite so much info if they are public but still… I glance at mine to see which articles are the most interesting. I did an article on an alternative use for stats a couple of years ago you can see it here.

One last thing for now. The option to subscribe by email to comments on a blog allows readers to follow the conversation from their inbox without them revisiting the blog and it is also possible to follow comments in RSS feed.

Those are just some of my thoughts.

By: altean

altean — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:53:30 +0000

Just thinking…….

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:57:08 +0000

So where do we go from here?

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:18:31 +0000

Now you are trying to keep me on my toes…

By: altean

altean — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:05:59 +0000

Anon,

I think you could only partially be correct.

Given the US Israeli digital take-down of the Iranian Nuclear refining process, (via memory sticks and spies since it was not on-line), you have to wonder if digital security, increasingly compromised by state sanction, isn’t the greatest threat to personal freedom.

In the first instance it is digital, Schools of the Englanders/Americas are a physical follow-up on an individual basis, after the digital incursion and tracking.

How do you neuter that?

By: anonomous

anonomous — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:07:07 +0000

Let’s hope it all gets cancelled.
And a UK withdrawal from so many nasty alliances.