Cell Phone Reminder (Warning)

LostViking

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#1
Just a little reminder of what your cell phone can do for you, or to you.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article219016820.html

If you're communicating on any electronic device. You are not secure.

Excerpt;
A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.

During the same period of late August or early September, electronic eavesdropping by an Eastern European intelligence agency picked up a conversation among Russians, one of whom remarked that Cohen was in Prague, two people familiar with the incident said.

The phone and surveillance data, which have not previously been disclosed, lend new credence to a key part of a former British spy’s dossier of Kremlin intelligence describing purported coordination between Trump’s campaign and Russia’s election meddling operation.


Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article219016820.html#storylink=cpy
 

LostViking

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:oops:

Privacy is long dead, I'm afraid.

I have friends who don't even care anymore. They buy those Alexa devices and have stated that they don't care if they're being recorded or not because they're "not doing anything wrong."

Until what's wrong changes.
...and penalties applied retroactively....
Yea, it seems the whole ex post facto thingy is a thingy of the past!
Or they bring in that word "Intent"
 

Bacash

Just a guy
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#8
I’m required to carry an iPhone for work, so I’m sort of screwed. I don’t do Alexa or any of that listening stuff, but I’ve given up on the phone thing. Just no way out for me, unless I change jobs. I worked too hard to get where I am job/income wise to give it up. If it gets to the point where they’re tacking my phone, rest assured it won’t be on my person, I’m not that dumb.
 

LostViking

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#9
They are a necessary evil for many these days.

Don't toss it in the river. This is just a cautionary tale.

They have become such common place. Sometimes we forget how invasive into our lives they can be.

I figure it pays to bring it up now and again.
It not only reveals Russian Collusion.
But how long we were at the bar.

What time we get gas.
Where we shop. What we search for. What we buy, if we use our phone to do it.
And so on.

Just a Public Service Announcement.
LV,
 

Sentinel one

Man is a bad animal...
#10
You pay for your convenience with your freedom. Entire careers have been destroyed
over some comment from 10 years ago. I got a smart phone a year ago, and it just
serves as a phone. No internet connection, just text and photos. GPS and wi-fi
disabled. Intelligence now is a commercial business, and they take the whole haystack
instead of just the few bad needles, and a look at dictatorships around the world shows
how benign social media are used to control the population. China has it's citizenship
rating, and that tech is being exported all around the world. You are certainly entitled
to an opinion on all things, but be prepared to pay for it.
 

Catapult

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#12
With the liberals gaining more political seats this past mid-term, some states may feel more emboldened to push harder on this "red flag law" business. More than ever before what we say can be used to haunt us.

Buying more ammo? Leave the cell at home and pay cash. Keep a burner in the glove box for emergencies. Grey.
 
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