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Osi Osgood
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posted August 26, 2013 01:11 PM
My wife and I were watching a news report today about this new software available to anybody, that allows a person to track another person by use of they're cell phone, anywhere that they are.
Now, we just have a land-line, we've never owned a cell phone to this day (and I have no desire to do so anywhere in the near future), but this is quite a fearful thing ...
Sexual predators getting the numbers of they're victims, whether adults or children ... there will be even more children snatched by vile people in the near future.
Other people that simply want to do harm to others, tracking them to perhaps kill them.
That's not getting paranoid, that's just what is going to happen.
So, I'm really hoping that some smart person out there, (and they will make a butt-load of money if they do) invent software that blocks tracking software on they're phones.
We live in a dark, bloody rotten time.
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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posted August 26, 2013 01:35 PM
That has been my view for a long time Osi. Information, a lot of
it private information, is available to all and sundry. Your financial
history, your employment history, your medical history, your family history, all available to anyone that wants it. Now you are
to be tracked, I'm with you on this, I don't have a mobile phone either, but there is something Orwellian about the whole modern
system of society.
[ August 26, 2013, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: Hugh Thompson Scott ]
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Paul Adsett
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posted August 26, 2013 03:07 PM
I totally agree with Osi and Hugh. The 'digital information revolution' is now totally out of control. There are no checks and balances on confidential personal information, in fact no information is regarded as confidential any more, anything about you is up for grabs. And then you have the majority of people who are addicted to their smart phones, and cannot put them down for 5 minutes, and are perfectly happy to share everything about themselves to anyone and eveyone on Facebook.
You have companies like American Express, Citibank etc. sharing all your personal information to other companies, because it is perfectly legal to do so and they get paid for that information. As for putting my bank account and financial portfolio on my computer or on 'secure' web sites, forget it. If the Pentagon can be hacked , nothing is safe anymore.
I predict that, sooner rather than later, there will be a massive cyberattack and the whole damn system will come crashing down, with all records lost forever, because nothing is on paper anymore.
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Bill Brandenstein
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posted August 26, 2013 04:04 PM
Invasion of privacy? Nah, we ain't got none! This is a serious problem, but I'm wondering if what you saw, Osi, was like a recent news report I viewed where it wasn't just a cell phone, but a GPS-enabled smart phone, plus posts to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, that allowed locations to be tracked - or stalked.
If this is a simple cell phone threat alone, unaided, that one's new to me. And even more disturbing.
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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posted August 26, 2013 05:07 PM
It shows how far our society has sunk Bill, when I worked for the
local Council,on Housing Maintenance, I, along with the rest of
the crew, worked in peoples homes, on trust. I'm talking total
trust, when the tenant was leaving for work, telling us that the
payments for various insurance men or the rent was on the side table if they called. It would never have crossed our minds to sift through folks private stuff, we were workmen, but honest, and
trusted workmen. How times have changed, when peoples private affairs are there for all to see at the touch of a button.
Something that would have mean't instant dismissal for us, all
those years ago, is a money maker for Bankers etc. Times do change, but not I feel, for the better.
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Martin Jones
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posted August 27, 2013 08:05 AM
As Maurice so rightly points out, Hugh, monitoring me,and Maurice, and you, can only ADD to our security. There's nothing wrong with "old " arguments; they've stood the test of time. It's the "new", untested, ones that we should be suspicious of !
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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posted August 27, 2013 02:00 PM
Osi, that function will no doubt be implemented in the manufacture of said 'phone. It conjures up visions of an employee
enjoying a game of golf, while telling his employer he's ill in bed.
There is something more sinister at work here and for whatever
reason, it isn't good.A lot of this techno is put out there with no
thought as to the repercussions, Orwell was quite right in his book,
I for one now take the stance, I give no info to any bodies, Government or otherwise.On my last Census form, I told them to refer to previous info on previous form. To hell with 'em.
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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posted August 27, 2013 02:32 PM
It's all true Robert, I worked for the local Council, on various sites
all over my home town of Whitehaven, (we kicked John Paul Jones
arse when he came to burn our ships a couple of centuries back)
The people get to know you, we've laid & lit old folks fires for them, made them cups of tea, apart from doing our job, even
watched kids while the tenant nipped out. Society has gone
rotten, no doubt through the PC laws etc, and pussy footing
Government. Sadly, those days are ended, people are viewed with suspicion, but this is helped by governments, who need an
enemy, but bring that "enemy" to live amongst us. In years gone by , it was the Russians, now it is anyone with an Eastern
accent, they were wrong then, as they are now. The people
that use mobile 'phones ought to be asking serious questions on this though, it is a serious infringement on decency, if a payiing
user is monitored in this underhand way, and thanks Osi for
making us all aware.
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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posted August 29, 2013 11:02 PM
Pete, don't kid yourself, the speed that technology now moves, they can tell when you take a leak. Robert, society has gone to
hell, the people on the housing estates where I worked, looked
on us as a back up to social service, we kept an eye on folk, sadly
that is in the past, and I myself nearing the criteria of an "old guy"
but thankfully fitter than most. I worry for the next generation,
because a lot have neither the insight or care, that was instilled
in us, coupled to the majority not being able to understand English.
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