Security or paranoia?

Ian Porter

Ian Porter

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Just seen something on breakfast TV about smartphones and apps being able to access location data, cameras etc. And what we should do to protect ourselves.

While I know it's all possible it just strikes me as inducing mass paranoia.
After all who the f**ks going to be interested where most of us go or want to see what we get up to at night?

Whatever happened to just getting on with life and not worrying about who's spying on us or trying to steal our identities. Fecking media winding everyone up.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have a TV at all :) (that's probably spying on me too)
 
OhJ

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Ian there was an article the other day telling people who have voice activated Samsung TV not to mention any thing personal in front of the TV. GLAD i am a technophobe.
 
Ian Porter

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OhJ said:
Ian there was an article the other day telling people who have voice activated Samsung TV not to mention any thing personal in front of the TV. GLAD i am a technophobe.
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I saw that too,

drives me mad, all they are doing is filling peoples heads with fear that everyone is out to get them
 
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Philwhiskeydrinker

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Ian Porter said:
OhJ said:
Ian there was an article the other day telling people who have voice activated Samsung TV not to mention any thing personal in front of the TV. GLAD i am a technophobe.
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I saw that too,

drives me mad, all they are doing is filling peoples heads with fear that everyone is out to get them
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Are you saying that everyone isn't out to get us.
Phew
 
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Mark

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They can track your phone using GPS, now by its power consumption to. Yet when its stolen you never get it back.

And they still cant track a ruddy great Malaysian jet! Maybe if it was battery powered......
 
Rubberchicken

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Ian Porter said:
drives me mad, all they are doing is filling peoples heads with fear that everyone is out to get them
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Not everyone, just the NSA, GCHQ, Google AdWords etc. :)

Snowden has proved nicely that it's not whether you're paranoid, but whether you're paranoid enough. ;)

It is a conversation that needs to be had, publicly, because if it's left to what "they" can get away with it's all downhill from here. But at the same time I find myself trying to block all that shit out, because it is maddening and leads to thoughts of being a hermit in a mud shack sometimes.
 
Rubberchicken

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digitalcaptive said:
The truth of the matter is
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The truth of the matter is that anyone who starts a sentence with "the truth of the matter is" will inevitably finish that sentence with an opinion. :lol:
 
austin

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Unless you have something to hide nobody is really interested in an individual's day to day movements or preferences. But get together 100,000+ people's movements and preferences, ages, social class, etc etc and you have some powerful and useful data about how certain groups live their lives, where they tend to go, how long for etc etc. For example it might confirm
an expectation that people aged 35-45 tend to go to big shopping malls once a month but early on a Saturday morning; whereas 16-25 yo go more frequently and prefer Saturday afternoons or Friday evenings. This allows shops, cafes, the mall, car park, transport, to plan how to exploit this general trend.

We give away valuable info like this nearly every time we go on the Internet.
 
Whealie

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The warnings are meaningless. Apple and Google (Android) have one warning for each risk, which makes it meaningless. So you might see a warning that says this app will access all your contacts and be able to send your data to them all blah blah blah. While this might mean the app can indeed access all your data and send it anywhere, it might also simple mean that you can email from this app. It is actually the process of emailing that makes all your contacts available - so you can choose who to send the email to.
 
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