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Originally posted by MIKER:
What, no takers? I find it hard to believe of all places only one person has an opinion on internet privacy and how our personal info is being farmed out to anyone who will pay. Or not pay.

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Janet Vertesi, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, had an idea: would it be possible to hide her pregnancy from big data? Thinking about technology—the way we use it and the way it uses us—is her professional life’s work. Pregnant women, she knew, are a marketing gold mine; a pregnant woman’s marketing data is worth 15 times as much as the average person’s. Could Vertesi, a self-declared “conscientious objector” of Google ever since 2012, when they announced to users that they’d be able to read every email and chat, navigate all the human and consumer interactions having a baby would require and keep big data from ever finding out?

Here’s what she found: hiding from big data is so inconvenient and expensive that even Vertesi doesn’t recommend it as a lifestyle choice. (She presented her findings at the Theorizing the Web conference in New York last week.) So what does that mean for companies who say users can just “opt out” if they aren’t happy with (so-called) privacy policies? Can you be a person on the internet without sacrificing all your data to the Google Powers That Be? I talked to Vertesi about her experiment, its implications, and why hiding from big data can make you look like a criminal.

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Stomping on the brakes of a 3,500-pound Ford Escape that refuses to stop–or even slow down–produces a unique feeling of anxiety. In this case it also produces a deep groaning sound, like an angry water buffalo bellowing somewhere under the SUV’s chassis. The more I pound the pedal, the louder the groan gets–along with the delighted cackling of the two hackers sitting behind me in the backseat....
As I drove their vehicles for more than an hour, Miller and Valasek showed that they’ve reverse-engineered enough of the software of the Escape and the Toyota Prius (both the 2010 model) to demonstrate a range of nasty surprises: everything from annoyances like uncontrollably blasting the horn to serious hazards like slamming on the Prius’ brakes at high speeds. They sent commands from their laptops that killed power steering, spoofed the GPS and made pathological liars out of speedometers and odometers. Finally they directed me out to a country road, where Valasek showed that he could violently jerk the Prius’ steering at any speed, threatening to send us into a cornfield or a head-on collision. “Imagine you’re driving down a highway at 80 ,” Valasek says. “You’re going into the car next to you or into oncoming traffic. That’s going to be bad times.”

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“I was just coming northbound on Highland and I seen a car, like, going really fast and all of a sudden I seen it jackknife,” Luis Cortez said. “I just seen parts fly everywhere, and I slammed on my brakes and stopped and tried to call 911."

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Originally posted by MIKER:

The same thing is true for pacemakers.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Also, insulin pumps and automatic implanted defibrillators.

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Originally posted by MIKER:
What, no takers? I find it hard to believe of all places only one person has an opinion on internet privacy and how our personal info is being farmed out to anyone who will pay. Or not pay.

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

Just so you know, Miker....

Jewelstatefan and AURaptor = same user.
What with the migration to new server and loss of the old archives, including being caught red-handed and full admission of sock puppetry (Ask Kwicko, who is also witness to M52Nickerson = Dreamtrove) he seems to think that short memories and lack of that physical admission means he can get away with that bullshit again - but dude, look real close at how JSF responds and reacts to things they could have NO KNOWLEDGE OF elsewise.

Truth is, 90%+ of *any* "conservative" impulse is nothing but hordes of sockpuppets pretending that this loud little handful of pure scum is anything but the tiniest minority, due to their rampant sociopathy and the fully justified hatred of ALL OF HUMANITY in their direction.



So take that into account when addressing JSF/Rappy, and how they have that mutual circlejerk goin on all the time, neh ?

-Frem

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Originally posted by M52NICKERSON:
Frem sees sock puppets everywhere. He is a very paranoid person. You can still find threads and post going back to 2003, and the whole me = Dreamtrove makes no sense since I argued with Dream all the time. I also doubt JSF and Rappy are the same person.

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Dreamtrove and his sockpuppet prove they are vastly smarter than Thuggery.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

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Originally posted by M52NICKERSON:
Frem sees sock puppets everywhere. He is a very paranoid person. You can still find threads and post going back to 2003, and the whole me = Dreamtrove makes no sense since I argued with Dream all the time. I also doubt JSF and Rappy are the same person.

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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And they did it 7 years ago.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:



Nice trick blinding all your posts.


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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Seriously now, who needs drones?
(I love my OLD car.)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I saw this post earlier and it was completely blank and you couldn't even access it. Looking at MIKER's post history, you still couldn't reply to it.

How did you get the period to show up?

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

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Originally posted by M52NICKERSON:
Frem sees sock puppets everywhere. He is a very paranoid person. You can still find threads and post going back to 2003, and the whole me = Dreamtrove makes no sense since I argued with Dream all the time. I also doubt JSF and Rappy are the same person.

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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And, yet again, Dreamtrove and his sockpuppet prove they are vastly smarter than Thuggery.
And they did it 7 years ago.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
A false identity adopted by trolls and other malcontents to support their own postings.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sockpuppet
She brought in six friends to back up her story, but five of them turned out to be sockpuppets.

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