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Title: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: chaser on November 30, 2011, 11:28:13 PM
Read this on Yahoo... This may go just a tad far with invading privacy. Just a tad you know...

http://news.yahoo.com/smartphone-spying-204933867.html (http://news.yahoo.com/smartphone-spying-204933867.html)
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: wil3ur on November 30, 2011, 11:57:54 PM
...and people call me crazy when I say that Facebook and Cell Phones do what the Stasi wishes they were able to do...  glad I've never owned either.

(Idiot to the media:  I didn't get a job because my employer looked at my facebook and found out I smoke crack!  Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aa)
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: chaser on December 01, 2011, 12:08:02 AM
I have Facebook and a smart phone.. I never post anything on Facebook that I don't want the whole world to know (Which means I rarely ever post on FB).

My smart phone though is my life. If I'm not at work I'm on it, I do everything with it so it's rather creepy to know they can see just about everything i do on it.



I wouldn't be suprised if somebody gets sued for this. Something that invades your privacy as much as this isn't legal..
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: Pigslilspaz on December 01, 2011, 03:11:44 AM
Depends on the itty bitty words in your contract. Also, thankfully I haven't owned a phone in 6 months, lol.
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: Ardy123 on December 01, 2011, 03:57:02 AM
hmm I have several non-carrier branded android dev phones, I'll check them out see if this is 'bundled' software that is installed by the carrier instead of the OEM.
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: VonMessa on December 01, 2011, 05:19:00 AM
If anyone thinks that they can live a completely "private" life in this age of technology, they are sadly mistaken.

The average New-Yorker shows up on camera ~ 75 times/day.

The average Londoner?   Almost twice as many times.

These are just two examples...
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: uptown on December 01, 2011, 07:22:57 AM
I more worried about Google Earth scoping out my garden.  :noid
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: VonMessa on December 01, 2011, 08:48:01 AM
I more worried about Google Earth scoping out my garden.  :noid

Google Earth, hell...

Beware my harvesting droids  :t
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: Shuffler on December 01, 2011, 08:54:35 AM
From what I hear most of the folks on facebook are clueless..... not all but most.
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: uptown on December 02, 2011, 01:38:03 AM
I just took a pic of this thread with my cell phone !!!!!! (http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk121/TheAmish/aFu_ArsenioYell.gif)
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: OOZ662 on December 02, 2011, 06:18:08 AM
A friend of mine who loves tinfoilhattery and obsesses over everything green, PETAtastic, and rebelious, posted this on FaceBook a few days ago...irony at its finest. In any case, my reply was that I tend to live my life more like this (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hasan_elahi.html). In summary, this guy was told by the FBI that he'd be monitored for a while, and instead he now broadcasts almost his entire life on his website with updates ranging from simple coordinates and statuses to picture and video feeds from his camera.

You cannot hide yourselves these days. I'm growing up in this world...may as well get used to it.
Google my username, you'll see everything I've ever done on the internet, minus three sites. One of which should be easily linked to this username if enough digging was done. If it does something to damage something in my future, then that isn't a future I want to hassle with anyway.
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: F22RaptorDude on December 02, 2011, 06:44:31 AM
i'm 16, what adult cares what I text about, plus I only text like 3-4 people every now and then  :lol I use my phone for video streaming mainly  :aok
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: VonMessa on December 02, 2011, 07:08:49 AM
A friend of mine who loves tinfoilhattery and obsesses over everything green, PETAtastic, and rebelious, posted this on FaceBook a few days ago...irony at its finest. In any case, my reply was that I tend to live my life more like this (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hasan_elahi.html). In summary, this guy was told by the FBI that he'd be monitored for a while, and instead he now broadcasts almost his entire life on his website with updates ranging from simple coordinates and statuses to picture and video feeds from his camera.

You cannot hide yourselves these days. I'm growing up in this world...may as well get used to it.
Google my username, you'll see everything I've ever done on the internet, minus three sites. One of which should be easily linked to this username if enough digging was done. If it does something to damage something in my future, then that isn't a future I want to hassle with anyway.

I've seen him before.  Every time I see another article about him, I  :rofl
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: CAP1 on December 02, 2011, 07:50:45 AM
hmm I have several non-carrier branded android dev phones, I'll check them out see if this is 'bundled' software that is installed by the carrier instead of the OEM.


 i believe i read an article that stated that certain android phones have it too.

 the only way to be even remotely private on a cell phone, is to buy one off the shelf at target, pay cash for it, and reload the minutes as you go. also, never give that number to anyone, and be sure to block it when you make a call.
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: Reschke on December 02, 2011, 08:40:13 AM
Burner phones from gas stations and big warehouse stores are the way to go if you want to stay off the grid. Sometimes you just gotta stay one step ahead of the bad guys so you don't get burned.
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: CAP1 on December 02, 2011, 08:52:21 AM
Burner phones from gas stations and big warehouse stores are the way to go if you want to stay off the grid. Sometimes you just gotta stay one step ahead of the bad guys so you don't get burned.

 aahhhh......but did you know that you can be tracked by something as simple as the transponders that are your tire pressure monitors?
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: TequilaChaser on December 02, 2011, 09:02:09 AM
aahhhh......but did you know that you can be tracked by something as simple as the transponders that are your tire pressure monitors?

don't forget about the little yellow, blue, purple, red, green or orange colored dots ( or any color really ) on the sidewalls of most any brand new tire you buy............. these dots mark where they inserted the microchip during manufacturing......

that sure was one "eye opening" discovery channel show......... the DSC featured a while back......

buy those burner phones, always use cash, wear a baseball cap with 2 to 3 leds superglued or taped to the brim and also superglue 3 or 4 leds around your license plate

ROFL........
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: CAP1 on December 02, 2011, 09:04:37 AM
don't forget about the little yellow, blue, purple, red, green or orange colored dots ( or any color really ) on the sidewalls of most any brand new tire you buy............. these dots mark where they inserted the microchip during manufacturing......

that sure was one "eye opening" discovery channel show......... the DSC featured a while back......

buy those burner phones, always use cash, wear a baseball cap with 2 to 3 leds superglued or taped to the brim and also superglue 3 or 4 leds around your license plate

ROFL........

 i hadn't seen the whole show....and didn't know abotu the dots..........
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: Dichotomy on December 02, 2011, 02:56:45 PM
It warms my heart to know that somebody somewhere is drawing a salary keeping up with my boring life.  :)
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: CAP1 on December 02, 2011, 02:59:16 PM
It warms my heart to know that somebody somewhere is drawing a salary keeping up with my boring life.  :)

 eat work sleep. drive the new stang in between. that's my life right now. i'm sure i'm pretty interesting to them.  :noid
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: Vulcan on December 02, 2011, 04:15:27 PM
i believe i read an article that stated that certain android phones have it too.

Nah it's a carrier decision. Though apple seem to have hinted it's on all pre-iOS5 builds.

Thats the nice thing about android, buy phone/tablet, download community custom ROM with no nasties and bloatware - be happy.
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: JimmyC on December 02, 2011, 05:24:54 PM
i aint got nothing to hide
I was a doper
 a midnight toker
and now a coker....who gives a toejam
more shiz to worry about out there
stand tall...
we the new age
lifes too short shorty
come get me if ya want some
but dont waste my time
lifes tooo short
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: CAP1 on December 02, 2011, 05:35:59 PM
i aint got nothing to hide
I was a doper
 a midnight toker
and now a coker....who gives a toejam
more shiz to worry about out there
stand tall...
we the new age
lifes too short shorty
come get me if ya want some
but dont waste my time
lifes tooo short

 it doesn't matter if you've got nothing to hide.


Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

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Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: Flipperk on December 02, 2011, 05:44:55 PM
I dare someone to start searching for "Ways to combine processors in order to hack into the US Government"...See how long before your lights go out and you hear tires screeching and a helicopter buzzing over head  :noid
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: B-17 on December 02, 2011, 06:23:34 PM
:rofl
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: CAP1 on December 02, 2011, 07:09:02 PM
I dare someone to start searching for "Ways to combine processors in order to hack into the US Government"...See how long before your lights go out and you hear tires screeching and a helicopter buzzing over head  :noid
the chinese do that over a million times a day.
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: BoilerDown on December 02, 2011, 08:28:26 PM
Or maybe your smart phone isn't spying on you after all:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57335715-281/how-carrier-iq-was-wrongly-accused-of-keylogging

Rushing to judgment is still bad, m'kay?

M'kay.
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: Sundowner on December 02, 2011, 09:18:26 PM
it doesn't matter if you've got nothing to hide.





Well heck, if that's the case then everyone with nothing to hide should go ahead and post their social security number, their mother's maiden name , all their credit card numbers and while we're at it they should all take down their window curtains and blinds.
                      If indeed they have nothing to hide. :D
Regards,
Sun
Title: Re: Your Phone Is Spying On You
Post by: CAP1 on December 02, 2011, 09:41:10 PM
Well heck, if that's the case then everyone with nothing to hide should go ahead and post their social security number, their mother's maiden name , all their credit card numbers and while we're at it they should all take down their window curtains and blinds.
                      If indeed they have nothing to hide. :D
Regards,
Sun

 i phrased that incorrectly...it should have read........

 whether or not you have something to hide is irrelevant.....

 Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

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