Rats Traps ?

[SIXTYNINER]

Vpn navigation , "Anonimous" secure email services  ,  Cloud disk space , etc...

who can guarantee that behind all this virtual worlds ,
that living/exist thanks to the fact to act as defenders and protectors of the privacy ,
(systematically violated in any moment by "obscure" (although well-known) organizations )
in reality they are nothing more than one of the many slimy perverse methods 
used by that organizations above mentioned ?

insatiably hungry of informations  that ending in that black "hole"
of those who want dominate the humanity ,
through the total control (internet apart) with microcameras and micro spies hidden inside home appliances , Lcd Tv screen ,
consumer hi-fi , dock stations, game stations, etc.... ,

smart phones apart , already equipped with both "tools" , that can be remotely activated ....... ,
have you ever  wondered that the phrase : "now your device are succesfully update" ,
instead it : "thanks for letting us "steal" your "register master file" and all the docs
(images, videos, sms, addresses book, emails, chats, and all the rest... ) we wanted to have" ?
(same for computers online software updated)

and again ,
that the approval for sale of any electronic device also pass through the Army governmental commision ,
and what about socials ?
it is not common knowledge that many of silicon valley companies (and not only)
manufacturers of software, hardware, websites, etc..,
with "strategic characteristics" (technological and data informations process-manage)
are "discreetly" financed and consequently controlled by the security "agencies" ?

spy games and technological wars apart ,

it is the privacy finally and irrevocably dead and everyone in the rats traps  ?

Or is the time to start to demand a change,  like:
The option : "privacy reserved",
where the informations can be closely accessible only in case of controversy or crimes,
examples:
-for web navigation without cookies (where the websites must have the option :accept cookies or "cookiesless" navigation)
-for web shopping without registration ( payment with paypal or similar , delivery with "C/o" option , weapons and dangerous products excluded )
-cable tv with the option "no feedback",  where the decoder do not send back informations about that you watch ,
and other more .....

please post your  about

ps:
what a wonderfoul democracy and freedom...... 

 

[JohnRoberts]

This will get worse not better... I believe internet providers can sell information they collect from monitoring your web activity (I expect a bunch of porn ads any day now).  They may need to scrub identity from the data base but still an invasion of privacy.

I am mildly irritated by ads following me around the WWW and trying to get me to buy stuff I looked into (probably just local cookies so far). Usually I already bought it somewhere else or decided not to.  One consolation is knowing that the merchants are paying good money to push those targeted ads at me, so i am wasting their money.

It is a brave new world , cover up your cameras and microphones. and don't trust toys.

Who in their right mind would pay to bring a gadget with camera and microphone into their living space?  Yeah how could that possibly go wrong?

JR

 

[mjrippe]

Who in their right mind would pay to bring a gadget with camera and microphone into their living space?  Yeah how could that possibly go wrong?

Well, in some cases they do not know what they are bringing home.  Case in point: http://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/hack-your-own-samsung-tv-with-the-cias-weeping-angel-exploit/

 

[JohnRoberts]

Well, in some cases they do not know what they are bringing home.  Case in point: http://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/hack-your-own-samsung-tv-with-the-cias-weeping-angel-exploit/

Yup, not just TVs, the most insidious I've heard recently is children's toys sending data back to the mother ship... but everybody is trying to glean customer specific information that they can sell to advertisers to make mo money.  Using it for that is more innocent than other possibilities.

JR

 

[L´Andratté]

All the (paper) files of the Stasi (the late east german fake-communist "state security" organization) would cover a big part of the Berlin government district. All the NSA files printed out would cover a big part of western Europe. Well, silly comparison I know but gives an impression of the order of magnitude-

One would think the sheer mass of information would guarantee a little bit of anonymity. Still I wouldnt bet my right hand for it. :-X

The most chilling thing is Big Data which isn´t about individuals, but about controlling general trends in society. Much more efficient...

 

[SIXTYNINER]

The need to protect the privacy from "enemy" technology seem to be really strong and vastly spread ,

and then any hardware , software tools and Hack that really works about ,  would be a very large success ,

and much more if available as diy ,

i'm asking myself why the software super expert Gurus of "weeeeky Leeeeks" and all those that are part of Warezs world
who declare to be for anarchy and true freedom , do not have done nothing about ,

like : apps , patches , utility / tools for smart phones , computers , modems,routers , cable tv decoders , smart tvs etc...