11-22-2013, 07:44 PM | #21 | |
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Then again I couldn't do anything about it. Most of my contacts are in Skype now (MSN IS DEAD) and I don't think they have many alternatives, let alone moving on to one. |
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11-22-2013, 07:48 PM | #22 |
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Re: Steer clear of Skype.
I don't really care if Skype is spying on me, especially since governmental workers might be spying on everyone in the United States anyway. However, I hope they're not looking into my social security number and debit card number...
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11-22-2013, 08:36 PM | #23 |
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I have to frequent government site and the last thing I need is some lazy wackjob taking my SSN cause he was fired for something 'he didn't do'.
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11-22-2013, 08:39 PM | #24 |
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so he gives alternatives maintained by google?
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11-22-2013, 08:44 PM | #25 |
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11-22-2013, 08:57 PM | #26 |
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disconnect internet and cancel service
give your computer away get rid of your cellphone and service get rid of any electronics with internet connectivity get rid of your home phone if you have one grats you're now living a lifestyle where no one can spy on you except in real life oooOOOooo
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11-22-2013, 09:07 PM | #27 | |
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It's not like they're specifically targeting one person to do it. They just take what they can to do their job. It doesn't feel personal. edit: and really, what's stopping your ISP or anyone else from spying on you. It doesn't make sense to be so afraid of it. It's going to happen anyway, so why bother wasting your time stressing? I guess what I mean to say is if you guys are able to give me a good reason to worry about it, then maybe I'll be convinced enough to worry about it. Last edited by Pseudo Enigma; 11-22-2013 at 09:11 PM.. |
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11-22-2013, 09:35 PM | #28 |
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Re: Steer clear of Skype.
uninstalled Skype and installed Trillian not because of this conspiracy theory shit but because I don't like Skype hogging my resources
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11-23-2013, 01:03 AM | #29 | |
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The example is a bit far-fetched, but it represents what could happen in the future. |
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11-23-2013, 01:55 AM | #30 |
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Isn't that a bit paranoid?
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11-23-2013, 03:35 AM | #31 | |
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ps Why doesn't everyone use Google Hangouts? Doesn't everyone have a Google account anyway? Maybe everyone will use it once it gets pushed into place as Android's answer to iOS's iMessage?
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11-23-2013, 03:39 AM | #32 |
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Is there a different between microsoft spying on you and google spying on you?
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11-23-2013, 03:40 AM | #33 |
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11-23-2013, 07:57 AM | #34 | |
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Probably.
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11-23-2013, 09:07 AM | #35 |
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If you have a gmail account you're already giving them permission to access the text of every sent and received email, to mine data for targeted advertising. Why worry if they're also reading your chat logs for the same purpose?
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11-23-2013, 09:08 AM | #36 |
Very Grave Indeed
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11-23-2013, 10:01 AM | #37 |
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Afrobean and Dev are hitting it on the head
Pseudo: I hate using the "You're probably a little too young to..." excuse, but by damn when you get older you are going to just get tired of people getting in your shit. It all sounds nifty to have the world custom fit for you but it isn't work the drawback of everything you have being known, sold, and used. I know you see concerns of what they *could* do as paranoia but frankly, alot of it has happened before with different set pieces (Germany's rights doing the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s are the most well known example I'll say. Go seek some of the interviews that the History channel did back in the late 1990s/early 2000s online and tell me shit doesn't start looking familiar at some point [/Goldwin's Rule]). Frankly, I always assume something is looking in, so only info that I want public is on the computers I use anyway. I pay most everything with cash and I keep records in paper form. The most private thing they can get is my address if they did some serious investigating and cross-referenced everything I've posted on here, Facebook, and whatnot...but that isn't anything that an ISP check couldn't do sp it's w/e |
11-23-2013, 12:42 PM | #38 |
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11-23-2013, 12:56 PM | #39 | |
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BECAUSE I know that pretty much anybody who wants to know things about me is going to (whether it be the government or corporations or whatever) I pretty don't care at all about giving out my personal info. I almost never pay cash for anything, I do virtually -everything- online. I bank online, I buy things online, I do most of my corresponding over email and IM programs, and I use the same username for virtually every thing I've ever done in the past 20 years of being present on the internet. There are two kinds of intelligent reaction to the knowledge that elements in the world are gathering tracking and analysing miscellaneous information about everybody: 1/ Go on paranoid lockdown, and only pay for canned goods with the cash you keep stashed in your matress 2/ Accept that you are never going to have the time, resources and will to actually try and stop the information from being gathered, and not care. The trick is to just not be a guy who does the kind of things that would get you into trouble if the government found out about them. |
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11-23-2013, 02:02 PM | #40 | |
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I just don't see the point. It just makes somebody's job harder somewhere in the world. If someone can profit from just one link clicked, then that's probably something pretty cool for them. I don't see a lick of money, but I guess that's alright. As long as somebody else is happier because of it. It may be youth speaking, but I seriously don't give a fuck if I'm being watched. TBH I've never felt like I've had a private life to begin with, so...it will either bite me in the ass later and I'll take the appropriate counter-measures, or it wont and I get to stay comfortable and not fall into anxiety over nothing. |
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