All your base are belong to us: the cloud, the borg, and the inet by SignyM

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All your base are belong to us: the cloud, the borg, and the inet

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Sunday, April 24, 2011 19:18
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Sunday, April 24, 2011 5:16 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Just a couple of random observations

Latest versions of the iPhone and iPad have been found to not only track your location, but to "sample" it relatively frequently and keep it in a file which anyone who has access to your phone or pad (including Apple) can access. The files go back to November, when this was all secretly implemented. Android does the same. If you feel like Big Brother might be watching you, you're right, but it's not the gubmint for a change. The companies' defense is that this is all CLEARLY outlined in (their 20 pages of very fine print of) their privacy policy which you agreed to, so suck it up man.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jT9SqY6ry9jNQzb8Rmv-
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Apple is happy to tell us that we will no longer be "bothered" with having to download our music or videos or application to our personal devices because this will all be available on "the cloud". YIPEE! That means anything I might want... even my own personal files... is subject to their allowance and scrutiny, and the vagaries of internet and phone connections? NO, thank you! If it's mine I want it to be mine, not locked up in that great safe deposit box in "the cloud"!

And speaking of cloud malfunctions

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Amazon Server Troubles Take Down Reddit, Foursquare & HootSuite
http://mashable.com/2011/04/21/amazon-aws-server-problems/

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Sony PlayStation Network Still Down, No End In Sight
http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2011-04/sony-playstation-network-down-no-e
nd-in-sight/

Anonymous said "For a change, it's not us". All those peeps who are hooked on online games etc... going cold turkey on a holiday.

Get out and enjoy the weather for a change, willya?

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AND FINALLY, THIS JUST IN

NY case underscores Wi-Fi privacy dangers

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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents. That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought.
"We know who you are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen name, "Doldrum."
"No, I didn't," he insisted. "Somebody else could have but I didn't do anything like that."
"You're a creep ... just admit it," they said.
Law enforcement officials say the case is a cautionary tale. Their advice: Password-protect your wireless router.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110424/ap_on_hi_te/us_wi_fi_warning;_ylt=
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Sunday, April 24, 2011 7:22 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Not worried about my wireless router. It's so secure that I've forgotten the password and can't add new computers to it. Oops.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 8:13 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I heard about this one. It strikes me the same way. More and more and more of this is happening/coming out...I'd bet there's still far more than we know...

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 1:17 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Oh indeed, however it is worth considering that despite such efforts, us poor peons do not hold a monopoly on technological incompetence - just cause it's not push button easy (well, in most cases) doesn't mean anything they do to us we can't do right back do to them, and in fact, not only can this be turned upon them by poisoning the well and feeding in false data...

In many cases the attempt itself has exactly the opposite affect, the equivalent of sending up a flare and alerting the target of surveillence to someones interest - any attempt to connect to my vehicles EDR remotely, for example, will trigger an alarm and the only information you'll get is a vicious and profane rant which'll crash your reader in most cases.

And just you wait till the MI State Police hook their little gadget up to one of the "special" cellphones we've planted, fun fun fun.
http://www.freep.com/article/20110424/BLOG24/110423021/Mike-Thompson-Y
our-cell-phone-State-Police

Of course, if they had their way the damn things would be backdoored so they didn't have to be so obvious about it, right ?

And if you think that'll work, then according to the GPS unit of the cellphone on my desk I am sitting in Jakarta, Indonesia...

There are always TWO ends of a connection, you see, and controlling EITHER one allows you to affect the data flow in some fashion - technology giveth, and technology taketh away, heh.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 3:36 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER

I know everyone says you need your wifi password protected and all, but we've tried using passwords several times and when we do, the computers won't connect to the internet. It's not user error, we've tried it too many times with too many people for that. It's just, for whatever reason, the computers are unable to connect to the internet when the router has a password. No messages concern incorrect passwords, just will not connect. We keep it password free and unprotected and have no issues connecting.

It doesn't make any sense to me logically, but it works and we live in a rural area, so I figure the risk oh illegal activity via wireless mooching is relatively low, specially considering the neighbors are mostly grandparent aged.

Examples like that in NY is why I worry about this 'Big Brother' BS. Sure, I like my privacy, but I'm more concerned the government will do it's surveillance incorrectly (kinda how it tends to do everything else) and folks like you and me will suffer for it. I've got nothing to hide, but hearing all these stories of identity theft and the like, I sometimes worry someone is hiding behind me.

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:01 PM

BYTEMITE

They're selling your access info to the cloud to google and marketing companies. The marketing companies in turn select ads for you that are rife with malware newly minted for phone browsers. Another new and fun way to steal your personal information.

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 6:43 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I think this is serious and rutted up, nothing to find funny or quaint. I have a basic boring cellphone that doesn't do anything exciting, it just calls people and that's it. I wish people would find a way to create a movement against this stuff, I don't like Big Brother watching us like that. Uh Uh.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 7:18 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Use Bluetooth. It doesn't transmit as far. Or string wire, for godsake. Everyone knows that wifi transmits hundreds of feet. Companies with secrets (like pharma) refuse to connect with wifi.

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