the wonders of automation and..... surveillance http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn....o-gunman-auto-correct-prompts-school-lockdown and you call me the paranoid one.
So what you're saying here is that what's basically the 2012 version of a spelling mistake and a mis-dial is like big brother reading our messages and arresting us?
well, sorta. More like text at your own risk and the machines are taking over :wink: Couple a phone changing your words, albeit spawned of laziness/convenience/ignorance/whatever, with an ever expanding technological invasion of privacy and a population that doesn't care and all bets are off for the future. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46580029/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
Someone reported it. It's not like there was some automated program searching for "gunman" and the name of every public place in the US. I would have reported it too, especially with the rate of school shootings these days.
There is an automated program(s) searching for millions of keywords. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/fbi-to-monitor-facebook-twitter-myspace/8119 http://www.zdnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/150467 minority report anyone?
Ah hem.....nobody sees the elephant in the living room? http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/...-has-law-enforcement-holes-say-experts-277522 http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/android-apps-can-snoop-photos-too-280367 Go ahead, tell me this is a good thing. If this is the world you people want, have at it. Count me out.
Totally the same as a person calling the police when they receive a text message in error that says "gunman at west hall" Wiskas, you're telling me that if there was an elephant rapist in your neighborhood who has been striking over the last few days and you got a phone call from someone telling you they were raping an elephant at ______ address, you wouldn't call the police?
The elephant was asking for it, waving her nekkid trunk provocatively. No court would convict me! Rather than a good thing or bad thing, it's a public thing. Just remember if you use the internet or nobile devices, you are basically nekkid in public. In fact, when you are anywhere other than alone in your home, you are nekkid in public, and subject to being a star in a viral video. Be smart, be Safe. Be AWARE! (if my typing sux, it's because only my right hand is working atm)
texting certain keywords will have the fbi tracking, backtracing, gps mounting, monitoring, party vanning, and waiting on you. no doubt theres a central data skimmer watching for keywords by every single person on a phone. whoever doesnt want to believe, needs to wake the fuck up.
is everyone ready for 3/8? http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/1555-dnschanger-faq.html Mine's green 10 years ago, the ability to intrude on cell, internet and the communication technology and surveilence of today would not be tollerated. With baby steps and the added bonus of total phone/internet addiction, it is all now acceptible. The world as we knew it 10 years ago simply does not exist. And goofus.... what makes you think you are relatively safe within your home? :-k Yeah, maybe if you have no cable/sat TV, no phone of any kind, no windows, lead siding on your walls and camo netting over your whole yard, you might be able to enjoy the privacy that was a given 40 years ago. This shit happens gradually, but there is usually some sort of plan in place to justify the investment in the technology in the first place. The capabilities built into todays internet and cell infrastructure didn't happen by accident. The best case scenario is that we'll all be unavoidably bombarded with unrelenting advertising. The worst case?...........use your imagination. The capability is there and if anyone thinks that virtuous souls are going to protect them from malice, they live in a richer fantasy world than I. If anyone thinks we are going to be safegarded by the constitution and bill of rights.....take a good honest look at the world that this country is. At best, we have wolves guarding the henhouse.
I don't think we ever had as much privacy as we think we had. From credit card and retailer information tracking, to the fact that Government records like our birth, marriage, and other government documents about our lives were publicly accessible until fairly recently in the history of the US, our privacy has always been something of an illusion. What has changed is the advent of freely-available miniaturized surveillance tech (cell phone cameras, for instance), and the massive "big data" number cruncing. Before, your data could be "lost in the noise" of all that data that was out there, so that you had anonymity by obscurity, but now the computing power is such that your data can be ferreted out with ease. Edit: in a related note -- How to on erasing/obfuscating your tracks.
I think this whole Google freak out is weird. If I'm going to search for anything sensitive I'm sure as fuck not going to be logged into my Google account for it. It's like the morons who look at porn and never clear the history and then suddenly Chrome lists pornhub as your most visited website. No one but idiots are going to get caught with these technologies, and honestly, the less idiots the better.
You honestly believe that you need to be logged in? Goofus, you're old enough to remember life before credit cards aren't you? It wasn't all that long ago where very few people used them and the ones they used were for gas. you guys think I exagerate. But has anyone considered that maybe I've been around longer and have a bit bigger yardstick to measure what it is that this society has become? I do remember life before the advent of credit cards, when saving and using cash to pay for your needs was the rule rather than the exception. A time before color TV and cable TV, when you were really fortunate to be able to access two channels....usually ABC and NBC and you could somewhat believe the news except at e;lection time. A time when your SS# was used simply to identify the retirement account your contributions went to and SS was only that: a retirement savings account. I remember party lines being the only real possible invasion of privacy, but usually you got to know the people on the partyline and become more than mear aquaintences. A time anyone looking over the fence and watching you was arrested as a peeping tom and getting all up in other people's biz was not socially acceptable.....not anywhere. I remember kids getting together to build forts, build go-carts, explore and organize neighborhood ball games. We didn't need soccer moms, we loved having our own places and it was safe to do so. On saturday morning, virtually every kid in the neighborhood was outside and having a ball doing stuff that didn't require having an elbow bent to their ears or eyes glued to a little LCD screen with thumbs beating up a miniature keypad. That went for snow dys too. It was a time to be outside. IMHO: things have not changed for the better. Sure, some up-front perks come with tech, but at what cost on the back-side? Take a good honest look at what the state of things are today. Take a snapshot because the world as we know it today, will be gone tomorrow and what replaces it will not neccessarily be better. Sure, change is innevitable, just be aware of what direction things are changing lest you wake up at a future time wondering WTF happened. That's what I get to do on a daily basis....wonder WTF happened. [/old fart]
Trying to type with one hand sucks! I do remember those gas cards; my Dad was an "early adapter", and had a wallet-full of them. Of course, I also know that the world of the past is always gone, replaced by the new world that the older generation disapproves of. I myself don't approve of the whole "debt-shuffle innovation" culture that was invented to hide the stagflation and fuel the "Reagan revolution", where Greenspan with his indecypherable utterances ruled over a grand financial juggling act that lasted for decades before it finally crashed and burned, and took us all with it.
IE: Doomsday has come and gone.....this is the aftermath. Welcome to civilization 3.0. Turn your brains off and plug in. [video=metacafe;yt-YKSQPrGJtSU/ruske_volitve/]http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-YKSQPrGJtSU/ruske_volitve/[/video] Silence is golden: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/weird-gun-future-attacks-words-not-people-193050045.html
I don't need one of those. The truth or criticisim of our society seems to work good to shut people up really well. :wink:
