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Hyroglyphx
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Message 11 of 15 (861651)
08-24-2019 9:23 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by AZPaul3
08-23-2019 1:46 PM


You do realize you have a microphone in your living space, not surreptitiously to the FBI or NSA, but voluntarily to the internet?
She hears you when you're peeing.
She knows when you beat off.
She can hear you take that gassy dump,
Or when you toke so hard you cough.
And this is on the world wide web where any hacker can listen in on your private life anytime they want.
Remember, the internet never forgets.
Your most intimate moments are recorded live for everyone to hear for all posterity.
Amazon, Google and Facebook by far have the most voracious appetite for private information (if you exclude Chinese products which are slightly worse) but all smart watches, smart t.v.'s, computer monitors, and smart phones are capable of being hacked. We carry little microphones and video recording devices everywhere. We're pretty much fucked at this point... The NSA has been doing this since at least the late 90's. And now even the private sector has figured out a way to monetize it and sell the information for a handsome sum. We only have the illusion of privacy at this point. But I do hear that Alexa is particularly susceptible.
Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given.

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 13 of 15 (861654)
08-24-2019 10:06 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by dwise1
08-24-2019 10:01 PM


An acquaintance in the dance community has an iPhone. With the phone turned off (not powered down, of course) inside her purse, she mentioned to someone that she was thinking of going to a particular locale after this. Soon as she got into the car and turned her phone on to check it, Siri was already giving her directions to that locale. That's her story and she's sticking with it.
Pretty testable though... I've heard of some people stating very specific things near their cellphones, like a casual conversation about an obscure product, and within 10 minutes ads magically pop up for that obscure product. If it happened once or twice we'd call it coincidence. If it happens 1 or 2 million times I'd say we have a problem.

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine

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