They use that SSN for a lot of important paperwork throughout your life, from jobs to schools to property ownership to insurance. If you take all these fatuous questions and assume this wasn't the only data breach ever, it really shouldn't take a huge imagination to figure out the types of things they could do by combining it with similar troves of data extracted from various social networks and advertising networks.
No, it makes a ton of sense if you're thinking like someone who has billions of dollars and government supercomputer access. With this data, all they need is some purchasing history to feed into the simulator with it and they can make a full psychological profile on you and everyone you've ever met.
Well, the fact of the matter is that binary answers would still be one too many. They're a threat either way, and it's as unethical to buy from them as to boycott them, for the very same reasons. China is a humanitarian crisis. But we have bigger problems here right now.
Stupid people seek to gain social status by comparing and rating the looks of their female friends. Broke dirtbags collect and trade pictures of other people's female friends as though they were baseball cards. Pictures of guys just aren't that popular, though I suspect the search logic would know what you meant if you searched for "penis" instead.
Well, someone could write an anti-virus program in JavaScript, which would then subsequently exhaust the entirety of the world's computing resources. Poof, no more bitcoin. Sound bad enough?
Well, you're obviously astro-turfing because you've assumed i'm using a shitty off-the-shelf plastic router in the first place, rather than something a little bit more auditable like a Linux or BSD box.
There's a fundamental difference in perception here based on scales of economy. That is enough money to live comfortably in over half the geographical area of the world, but more than half of the population of the world is unaware of that, because they live in densely-populated mega-cities where that isn't even enough money to rent a place to stay without having roommates to split it with.
Yea, but there are still places in the US (backwoods places popular with "conservatives") where you can find a good sized 4-bedroom rental for about half that, leaving over $300 extra a month for food and booze, which is also extra cheap in those regions compared to the typical metropolis.
Actually if you assume the user is basically competent and knows how to apply his own security updates or switch router vendors when one refuses to issue a necessary one, everything he said is true. Maybe you're forgetting the possibility of conflicts-of-interest amongst the staff at any free 3rd party VPN service (the part where the traffic they're supposed to be hiding for you is more valuable than the service of hiding it for you) evaporates any possible improvement in network security unless you're assuming it's a given that the user is functionally illiterate and technically inept.
Are you suggesting there's a moral equivalence between Facebook's marketing team and the business plan of hospitals to provide health care? Seriously, go fuck off.
At the point that they have to basically pay you to use Facebook, and it is still only cost-effective if you literally do nothing else other than use Facebook for the rest of your life, you really have to re-evaluate whether using Facebook was actually supposed to be your penultimate goal.
The plan is cheap, but you're still being raked over the coals on data and voice rates. Though, "rollover data" isn't common and might make up the difference a little if they let you bank it indefinitely and not just for one extra month. Unless you plan to do most of your communication through Facebook though, as is obviously their intent, this is still a bad deal, just at a lower minimum buy-in than equivalent ripoff plans in the US.
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Checkmate.
They use that SSN for a lot of important paperwork throughout your life, from jobs to schools to property ownership to insurance. If you take all these fatuous questions and assume this wasn't the only data breach ever, it really shouldn't take a huge imagination to figure out the types of things they could do by combining it with similar troves of data extracted from various social networks and advertising networks.
Don't worry, someone impersonating you filled in all the data for them. They'll just use that for the ad targeting instead.
What's that you say, girl? The data is still in the building? It's trapped in the break room and trying to get out?! Quick girl, go tell Paw!
LOL! Now that would be funny.
No, it makes a ton of sense if you're thinking like someone who has billions of dollars and government supercomputer access. With this data, all they need is some purchasing history to feed into the simulator with it and they can make a full psychological profile on you and everyone you've ever met.
Well, the fact of the matter is that binary answers would still be one too many. They're a threat either way, and it's as unethical to buy from them as to boycott them, for the very same reasons. China is a humanitarian crisis. But we have bigger problems here right now.
Stupid people seek to gain social status by comparing and rating the looks of their female friends. Broke dirtbags collect and trade pictures of other people's female friends as though they were baseball cards. Pictures of guys just aren't that popular, though I suspect the search logic would know what you meant if you searched for "penis" instead.
Too true, too true.
Well, someone could write an anti-virus program in JavaScript, which would then subsequently exhaust the entirety of the world's computing resources. Poof, no more bitcoin. Sound bad enough?
Even Saddam believed Saddam had nukes. There's a problem with too much lying.
On the plus side though, World of Warcraft will be a friendly place again without the huge black market for gold farming and account hijacking.
Thank you. Someone please mod this +1 informative.
As a child, I used to wish for this to happen.
... too stupid to know where personalized ads come from,
Well, you're obviously astro-turfing because you've assumed i'm using a shitty off-the-shelf plastic router in the first place, rather than something a little bit more auditable like a Linux or BSD box.
There's a fundamental difference in perception here based on scales of economy. That is enough money to live comfortably in over half the geographical area of the world, but more than half of the population of the world is unaware of that, because they live in densely-populated mega-cities where that isn't even enough money to rent a place to stay without having roommates to split it with.
Yea, but there are still places in the US (backwoods places popular with "conservatives") where you can find a good sized 4-bedroom rental for about half that, leaving over $300 extra a month for food and booze, which is also extra cheap in those regions compared to the typical metropolis.
Actually if you assume the user is basically competent and knows how to apply his own security updates or switch router vendors when one refuses to issue a necessary one, everything he said is true. Maybe you're forgetting the possibility of conflicts-of-interest amongst the staff at any free 3rd party VPN service (the part where the traffic they're supposed to be hiding for you is more valuable than the service of hiding it for you) evaporates any possible improvement in network security unless you're assuming it's a given that the user is functionally illiterate and technically inept.
I was already not using it.
Wait, you mean mining all those bitcoins wasn't useful?
Are you suggesting there's a moral equivalence between Facebook's marketing team and the business plan of hospitals to provide health care? Seriously, go fuck off.
At the point that they have to basically pay you to use Facebook, and it is still only cost-effective if you literally do nothing else other than use Facebook for the rest of your life, you really have to re-evaluate whether using Facebook was actually supposed to be your penultimate goal.
The plan is cheap, but you're still being raked over the coals on data and voice rates. Though, "rollover data" isn't common and might make up the difference a little if they let you bank it indefinitely and not just for one extra month. Unless you plan to do most of your communication through Facebook though, as is obviously their intent, this is still a bad deal, just at a lower minimum buy-in than equivalent ripoff plans in the US.
Have you ever heard the phrase "the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing?"