Mr. Vieira
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Epik hack exposed data on 15M email addresses.
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I'm seriously considering reverting to pigeons...augmented with smoke signals.
But I'm sure someone would find a way to mess that up too. I wasn't paying attention at first and thought it was that game/lawsuit company, but I notice the spelling is different. Never heard of them. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Promise Land of Trustafarians
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Mr. Vieira
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You can’t go wrong with those. I used to have one of those from Blimpie’s subs…get eight stamps/punches, get a free 6” sub. No email, phone numbers, etc. involved. Just a little card I kept in my wallet.
The Colonel and Ronald don’t need to know anything about me. |
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If the bartender at my usual place asks me about my vacation after having been gone for a bit, it's endearing. If I step through the golden arches and a life-size Ronald McDonald mannequin asked the same, I'd have to come back to the place with a can of gasoline and a book of matches. |
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Amazon in general... but more specifically all the products they just released to bring true surveillance into your home.
Sure the robot following you around sounds nice, and the drone patrolling your home... wait, what? Oh hell no! There is so much more but I'm not going to actually link to all the articles. What amazes me is the seemingly high demand for this!? Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I saw that earlier. I’m sure none of that will go sideways or result in anything weird or intrusive.
Anyone buying that “robot” deserves everything that happens as a result. |
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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While most of us knew this, Visio makes money on advertising, not selling TVs. In fact, this year it made more than double the money in advertising (Platform+) than it did selling hardware.. Much like printers, the hardware isn't the money maker.
Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Toronto
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Oh great, Apple's helping criminals steal my car.
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
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The funny thing is, most Apple devices now notify you when there is a trackable device following you. I get notified all the time for my kids' AirPods and and iPads. I know they are following me so I would assume it would work with AirTags too.
Of course, that assumes the vehicle owner uses Apple devices. Not sure how the feature works with an Android and which version of Android it would work for. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I thought these things were supposed to pop up and alert you if one was in your vicinity/moving with you, that isn’t registered/belonging to you, to prevent stuff like this (and stalking).
But if you don’t have an iPhone (I suppose there are a handful of high-end car owners who, for whatever reason, don’t) then you could be tracked this way without ever realizing? Are these people doing additional front-end research to make sure they’re attaching them to the cars of people without iPhones? Or would an Android-based phone also receive some sort of “strange tracker detected nearby…is this yours?” alert? Point is, there isn’t anything in the world that shitheads and lowlifes can’t/won’t corrupt or use in a bad, wrong or shady way. The day these things were announced the first thing that crossed my mind was “the thieves, stalkers and creepsters of the world will all get a kick out of these, and use them in ways Apple would never advertise”. |
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I think the problem is that Android doesn't really know to scan for these. |
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Location: Toronto
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Tomorrow's news headline:
Apple to Android users: Buy an iPhone or risk losing your expensive car! |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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So, Airtags are being used in auto theft rings. Apple is asking for perhaps the single largest consumer lawsuit in history. These stupid things are going to come back to bite them in a very nasty way. And, yes, I know there are other trackers out there, but those companies haven't got the money that Apple has. So, are airTags a solution in search of a problem, or a problem in search of a solution? For me, they are the latter. They are a very big problem about to rear its head, whether in the manner cited above, or the first time a woman or little kid is tracked, raped, and murdered with help from the silly things. - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I think they may turn out to be a problem in search of a problem, big picture. I can see them going the way of the iPod Hi-Fi in the coming years.
Is their stated purpose truly a pressing, needed thing? I don’t believe so. Distracted laziness can be overcome without paying for extra tech to keep one from losing their keys, purse, backpack or suitcase. People have done so for decades and decades. I realize, in the second decade of the 21st century, everyone's got their own head up their ass 24/7 with all their gadgets, gizmos and other "distractions"...but come on. To me it’s been one of those “just because you can doesn’t mean you have to” things. If kids aren’t swallowing the batteries, then people are having their stuff stolen. Just from the “more potential headache than it’s worth” front, I can see Apple eventually going “alright, enough of this…”. And, yes…not because they’re the only company selling such things. But because they’re the 13,000-pound monkey in the room, with more money than God, selling such things. I believe we’ve already seen how bonehead consumers, and billboard lawyers, like to make a snack out of Apple, any chance they get. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Tile Buyer Life360 Selling Precise Location Data on Millions of Users Nice of them to bridge that gap. Quote:
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Shocked, shocked I tell you! Nobody could have foreseen such an evil deed. Oh wait.
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history
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I get that our information is valuable but this kind of thing strikes me more like stealing from me if I were to have opted out already. When I had Verizon I never signed up for Selects because the privacy issues. So glad I'm not with them now! Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I hate that kind of thing. Just blatant disrespect and game-playing. So low-rent.
UPDATE: And right along those same lines, I just saw this at MacRumors: Report: iOS Users Who Opt-Out of App Tracking Continue to Be Tracked by Facebook and Snapchat I'd like to say/think "well, they're gonna keep doing this until everyone just says 'enough' and drops them completely". But I'm not that naive. Nobody ever says "enough" anymore (we wouldn't have half the silly shit going on in the world if so), and I know some people who'd rather lose a limb than not be on Facebook, so... Quote:
This is wrong. If there were swift and certain consequences to their fuckery - the business/financial equivalent of a solid, well-deserved punch in the jaw that totally rewires/adjusts one's thinking/attitude immediately - they'd knock it off. Well, most would. I have my doubts about a few... The default, across the board, should be "I'm opted out/leave me alone, unless I blatantly flip a switch to allow/agree to otherwise...until then, BUG OFF!" But these companies know most would never do so, so they have to do this shady, low-rent and underhanded stuff to get to you. We've seen it just three times this morning, from some big, known outfits. That should speak volumes about who's who, who believes what, where priorities are, how some companies view you, etc. And because all this stuff is intertwined with politicians and big political interests, realistically expecting Washington DC and lawmakers to "tackle the issue" is about the stupidest, most pie-eyed/fairytale thing a grown, reasonably-intelligent person could ever believe. I put my number on the Do Not Call registry back in summer of 2004; I get more telemarketing and bullcrap calls now than I ever have. Don't tell me that industry/practice couldn't be decimated, overnight, if the genuine will was there to do so. Do we just have to start physically beating the sweet holy shit out of some of these CEOs and execs a few times a year until they come around? I'm not ruling that out. Last edited by psmith2.0 : 2021-12-08 at 11:31. |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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None of this is going to end. The data is just too valuable, and the players will continue to skirt around the rules/laws wherever/whenever they can. And when they stop, the government will fill the void.
There is no winning. - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Seems like it.
I guess the moral is "don't do/say things (or go places) on your phone that you wouldn't in real life". Yeah, right...that's all an iPhone is good for, really. |
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I'm not shocked to see the tracking thing for FB and Snapchat. Really, it is their whole business model. To think, back in the day FB was integrated into the OS!
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