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Show HN: They Came For Me – fake random browsing to prevent profiling

5 pointsby nilssonandersalmost 11 years ago

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nilssonandersalmost 11 years ago
The whole recent xkeyscore thing made me remember the random keyword-spamming during the Echelon craze.<p>The reason I made it is that awkward gut feeling you get if you ever used the word &quot;bomb&quot; or something in a sentence, and you&#x27;re not sure if that will flag something so someone will monitor more of your conversation&#x2F;traffic. There should never be a reason to have to think like that.<p>All sites and links are indexed automatically, and the search strings are generated randomly, based on a few sets of rules, and on text of the pages it finds.