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Subject: Re: Identity

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Dear All,

You may be interested to know that as part of my Day Job I am interested in what is happening regarding Internet security, privacy etc. I attend and speak at meetings and conferences round the world on this topic - (over the last 12 months I have been to Hong Kong,San Francisco, Washington, Nice) and am a member of a a group called the Liberty Alliance http://www.project-liberty.org/ which is concerned with this. Also deliverables from the EU 6th framework are now available and have some interesting elements regarding 'trust' and 'privacy'. As well as e-goverment, these are relevant to car club members because identity theft can take place with cars as well as people. Watch this space and if anyone wants discuss this with further, contact me direct.

BE WARNED: THIS SITE IS NOT 'GOOGLE PROOF' AND INFORMATION POSTED HERE WILL BE AVAILABLE 'FOREVER' ON THE NET. So be discreet about what you say...

PS the tool for this site is a beta version.

Subject: Re: Identity

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Roger & Colin,

Roger, we are agreed then.

Colin, thank you for your sage advice, with which I would like to associate myself. BTW, the AMOC fora are Google-proof, I believe, although the whole site is not i.e. if you post in the diary of coming events Google can find you!

Tim L

Subject: Re: Identity

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Personally I am delighted to be identified as a Lagonda owner (wear the sweat shirt) and it's difficult to see how anyone who uses their Lagonda(s) in any meaningful way could not be identified one way or another. Obviously one takes sensible precautions but if you keep your car locked up and no one knows you have it, then I doubt you are the sort of person who would participate in the forum. Having said that perhaps we should encourage members to use their own names but not make it mandatory. Like wise as this is not an official Club forum I take the point that it should be as all inclusive as possible. I do actually know owners who are not members (I'm working on them!) but some people have so many different vintage cars that if they joined every club they would be drowned in paper. So it's probably better to leave it as it is.

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Subject: Re: Identity

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Type "Lagonda forum" in Google and it appears on page 6. Not very impressive, but it's there. So clearly Google's spider has visited - the weblogs would reveal when.
If you want to keep spiders out it's not Google you need to worry about. Easy enough to keep Google out if you want to (a bit late now though). It's the not so reputable that are the problem.

Subject: Re: Identity

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Thank you for all the comments on identity, conclusion is: if you want to stay unrecognized use an invented username, if you want to change it, please send me a message (PM) with the desired new one and we change it for you.
This site is public on the internet, also found by search engines, Google was the fastest, so if somebody searches for Lagonda information we are discussing here, he may find it. So don't discuss things that shall stay secret.