I don't know how true this is yet I am passing it on just in case. - Amy

 

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From: Jim Foreman <jimfore@...>
Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:20 AM
Subject: [ok-bike-society] www.cars.gov
To: WackyWabbits <WackyWabbits@yahoogroups.com>, RVbasics@yahoogroups.com, Boondocking@yahoogroups.com, OBS <ok-bike-society@yahoogroups.com>, Van Dwellers <VanDwellers@yahoogroups.com>

 

Something I just heard over the news that is very important to the everyone. If you go to www.cars.gov to check what your car is worth under the Cash for Clunkers deal, you get a form to fill out. Before you get into the website, you will get one of those pages-long privacy notices that you have to accept the terms before you go further. If you accept it, you allow the government to basically plant a Trojan that opens your computer to access by the government from then on.
This isn't one of those black helicopter warnings, if you doubt it, log on and read the full details of the "privacy agreement" (the important is was down near the bottom). Just be sure you don't accept or click "Continue".

Jim Foreman

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