I got it too but its just a message from G spelwin to warn us about web surveillance...
read: I have pasted the contents of the letter for those of you who did not get the letter...
June 18, 2001
Dear friend and fellow athlete,
Big Brother is watching your every move on the Web. So is your Boss, the Feds, and advertising agencies nationwide. And they are not only watching, but they are remembering everything you do. Whether you are aware of it or not, chances are that the authorities, your ISP, and many web sites you visit know lots about you. They know who you are, what you do, your likes and dislikes.
When you surf the Web, your fingerprints are left every place you stop. Web sites collect all sorts of information about visitors, from what Web browser and ISP you use to more personal information like your IP address and e-mail address. If you browse at work, your network configuration can even enable sites to get your name.
Meanwhile, your ISP can monitor all of your browsing habits, documenting your travels across the Web. Though most ISPs won't use this information inappropriately, the real vulnerability is that this sensitive data exists and can fall into the wrong hands. Hackers may gather personal information on you, and soon you could be the victim of a scam or worse yet, identity theft. Or, a government agency, such as the FBI, may monitor your online activities and arrest you for any suspect behavior.
Why should athletes like you and I care? Consider some ways that your personal information can be used:
Your employer: People rarely get fired for poor performance alone. Rather, employers will go through your old email and look at your web browsing patters in order to get ammunition for firing you. Or let's say that your boss or a coworker does not like you. Every site you visit on company time can be tracked and used against you. In fact, 11 percent of Americans overall have been disciplined or outright fired because of e-mail they sent or the surfing they did at work.
According to the American Management Association, 27% of US companies check employee email. Let's say that your are reading my guide to finding steroids and not getting caught called "The Secrets of Mail Order Steroid Success 2001 edition." Do you really want your boss to know that this is something you were taking a look at?
You're probably aware that courts have ruled that workers can't expect their workplace email and computer files to be considered private. But some companies are taking surveillance to the ultimate level with inexpensive software that can log every word you type. This new spy software will copy each and every tap on your keyboard and pass them directly to your boss.
The Wall Street Journal calls these companies "the keystroke cops" and notes that what you write does not even have to be stored on your computer to be read. "Say you draft a rant to the boss or a client, and then, thinking better of it, delete the whole thing," Michael J. McCarthy writes. "Too late. One by one, all the keystrokes have been sucked up and stored on your computer's hard drive or sent as email that a computer-system administrator or manager can retrieve at his convenience."
The ads for these products makes their intended use crystal clear: "Secretly Record Everything Your Spouse, Children, and Employees Do Online," invites one firm. Another vendor promises to help "companies understand how employees use their computers, especially, how much time they spend for non-business purposes or in ways that could result in legal exposure for the organization." Clearly, your privacy is under assault in the office.
Identity fraud: Identity theft is skyrocketing, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Calls answered by the FTC's identity theft hotline (877-IDTHEFT) tripled in the past six months with an average of more than 1,000 calls a week. Experts say that the Internet makes a huge difference. The Net makes is easier to steal an identity and once it's stolen, it's easy to use that identity online.
Monitoring your movements: What if a potential stalker or some other person with bad intentions monitored your e-mail or Web activity and learned where you might be at a certain time? Such a scenario is not far-fetched with today's technology. Companies monitor e-mail and third-party advertising and marketing groups identify and track users' online activity all the time. The consequences could be devastating.
Even popular Microsoft programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint imbed invisible markers, or Web bugs, in your documents that can be traced back to a specific PC.
And then there's Carnivore: As I mentioned in past emails, the FBI is using a new technology called Carnivore, which is likely to change privacy, as we know it. Carnivore is information-gathering software created by the FBI to combat criminal activity on the Internet. Carnivore is housed in a computer that connects to your Internet Service Provider's (ISP's) servers and mines all incoming and outgoing mail for information.
The FBI claims to use the software to locate and monitor SPECIFIC email addresses for evidence of criminal activity. However, in the process of monitoring a single account, Carnivore must sift through ALL available account information on a given server. The objection privacy advocates, legislators, and the general public have with Carnivore is that the net it casts is too wide. The FBI will have the ability to look through the accounts and email of people not suspected or charged with any crime. Further, you and I have no protection or knowledge of unlawful or accidental seizures of account information. Basically, you will have to trust the FBI not to invade your privacy.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that as Americans, we have almost no privacy rights, and very limited means of protecting our personal information. So, until this changes, each of us needs to do three things. You need to scrub your computer, cover your tracks, and encrypt your email. Fortunately, there are some great resources available for you to use to keep your personal business private. Here's what I not only recommend, but what I think are the absolute essential privacy tools that you need to start using.
X-cleaner
One of the best anti-spy programs that you can use to avoid detection is the X-Cleaner. The X-Cleaner remove all traces of documents opened and pictures viewed. It detects "spy" software used by your employer, roommate, parent, or spouse, that can log your activity and monitor your Internet tracks. Then it will permanently erase the digital footprints left behind when you surf and get rid of potentially embarrassing "hidden" files.
But there's more. X-Cleaner will stop password theft. It knows if users are snooping your keystrokes. It erases chat files including ICQ, AIM, and more -- to remove your chat traces. And, it's so small you can take it with you to public machines. No installation required - simply download and use.
X-Cleaner is compatible with and will supplement virus software and personal firewalls. A virus scanner will protect you from virus-infected files. A firewall will protect you from hacking attempts coming from the outside (mostly the internet). But neither does anything against someone trying to breach your privacy or steal your secrets by examining the traces left by programs on your hard disk or by installing keyboard-logging software.
I highly recommend you download a free 30-day trial. Click here to download the software and give it a try.
Anonymizer
The best way for you to surf the Web privately is with an anonymous browsing service. The best and oldest anonymous browser is called Anonymizer. Their most basic service is a free proxy that will retrieve the Web pages you want to look at from different sites and display them in your browser without leaving your identity on those sites. This is a great service, but the free version is painfully slow and you have to put up with lots of ads. For $14.99 for three months, you get a faster and more secure service that can encrypt cookies and URLs but not the actual data being retrieved - additionally, there are no ads or pop-ups.
For $29.99 per quarter, the Anonymizer provides their coolest service -- secure tunneling. This creates an encrypted connection between your system and their servers, allowing you to send e-mail, post messages to newsgroups, and browse the Web anonymously without even your ISP being able to snoop on what you're doing. This service does it all. It shields your surfing activities from marketers, spammers, hackers, co-workers, your boss, and more. It neutralizes privacy threats like Cookies, Web Bugs, Java, and Javascript. And it includes advanced features like URL Encryption, Cookie Encryption, and Ad Filtering for more security and convenience. When you combine this service with the X-Cleaner, and secure email (details follow) there is no chance that your privacy will be compromised.
Please click here to read more about and sign up for the Anonymizer service.
Elite Fitness Secure Encrypted Email
One of the easiest things that you can do to protect your privacy is to use web-based, encrypted email like the free Stealth Messaging from Elite Fitness.
Elite Fitness has partnered with Hush communications, creators of hushmail.com, to offer our subscribers free 1,024 bit end-to-end encryption running through a JAVA applet. The email system is very similar to hotmail, Yahoo mail, or hushmail except you get a cool email address like
[email protected]. So if you go by Big Rick Rock on the elitefitness.com discussion boards, now your email address can be
[email protected] or anything else that you choose!
Philip R. Zimmermann is the Chief Cryptographer for Hush communications. Zimmermann is the godfather of Internet encryption and creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the very first encrypted email program. In 2000, Info World magazine named Zimmermann one of the Top 10 Innovators in E-business. In 1999, he received the Louis Brandeis Award from Privacy International. And he has won numerous other awards for promoting the responsible use of technology. Zimmermann said, "For the past decade PGP has been the gold standard for email encryption but we've always had trouble expanding beyond the power users because of ease of use problems. The OpenPGP standard will be well served by Hush's fresh approach to ease of use and its roaming capability. Further, Hush has a consistent track record of publishing its source code." When I check my secure elitefitness.com Stealth Messaging email account, I am glad to know that Zimmerman's technology is behind the service.
The beauty of Elite Fitness Stealth Messaging is that its security cannot be broken or weakened by government sponsored snooping software - not even Carnivore. The Hush encryption engine powering Elite Fitness's security system is a lot like a circuit, when one Elite Fitness user communicates with another Elite Fitness or Hush user, the circuit is complete and the mail they send is completely safe. In fact, most of the moderators and senior members of our site, only accept email that originates from a secure elitefitness.com account.
To anyone other than the sender or the recipient of an Elite or Hush email, the message appears as a jumble of numbers and letters. It is completely illegible. The only way to decrypt or unscramble messages is by using your own passphrase when you open up your Elite Fitness Stealth Messaging account. Carnivore cannot decrypt your mail, and is therefore, powerless against messages sent between Elite and Hush users.
Getting your own elitefitness.com email account with 5Mbs of storage is easy. Just click here to sign up, there is no charge.
But right now, and for the next 72 hours only, we are offering you a Platinum elitefitness.com email account containing an extra 20Mbs of storage for a one time special price of only $19.20. That's 20% off the regular annual fee of $24.00.
Click here to get a regular elitefitness.com email account, at no charge.
Or, click here to get a Platinum account. You'll save 20% off the regular price of $24.00, making your cost only $19.20, and you'll get 25Mbs. and a full year's access.
With these three tools, X-Cleaner, Anonymizer, and Elite Fitness Stealth Messaging, your privacy is totally secure. All you have to do is scrub your computer, cover your tracks, and encrypt your email, and you'll be protected like never before.
Yours in sport,
George Spellwin
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