Your microphone has recorded your words. Your not really encrypted messages have been stored. Your location has been logged. Your search history has revealed your preferences.
This took mere seconds. Agents of old needed days.
Ask Facebook or Google. They are pioneers in the invasion of privacy.:P
Soon ads will be beamed into the brain directly - VR is just one step closer. Imagine a "fully immersive ad experience" in full surround sound... for the latest version of Candy Crush.
Wouldn't surprise me if you find Soros funds the firm that bought these hacks off the dark web and weaponized them.
I agree.
But I have a question: What is Soros' end game? What goal is he striving to reach?
The dude's old and rich, what gets him out of bed in the morning? I know many say he eats green eggs and evil for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but to what end?
I ask, because I do not know, not because I do not believe it.
Closed source, open source, half-way open source - they all have holes the size of the Titanic, and are casing our privacy to sink to the bottom of the ocean. We have burned our life rafts and strapped ourselves to the deck. The problem is our dependence on these "conveniences" we can now not live without.
The more we depend on technology, the more vulnerable we become to those that use it to erode our freedoms and privacy. I enjoy the benefits of using technology, it has made many things more convenient, and has also stolen more of my time than I care to admit...
It seems though, that now, no matter where you are, and who you are, the leash attached to our connected technology is tied to an increasingly meaner and nastier junk yard dog that is very hungry.
I suspect the reason it's a problem in China is because the government tightly regulates internet access there, so the quacks have gone to the airwaves instead. They're dealing with radio spam.
China tightly regulates Internet access. From what? Things the government does not want the people to hear. Going to the airwaves as an alternative to avoid Internet censorship is an understandable option for dissenters to take.
I'm sure true Radio spam is there, it's everywhere else after all. But I suspect China's definition of radio spam is a bit different than yours or mine.
Worldwide, pirate radio has been around for as long as radio has been regulated, but I think China's situation has more to do with politics than the good of the people.
I won't be impressed until a fully interactive holographic version of Pokemon Go is projected from my display after I think about performing a Google search on LOL cats.
I once played the single player version tic-tac-toe on paper for 24 hours straight, I always won. I'm considering going pro.
"Mr. Anderson... do you wish to take the red pill, the blue pill, or the purple pill?"
"You take the blue pill, the commercials end. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, with your ad blocker uninstalled and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. You take the purple pill you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe about what happened the night before."
I wish 'they' would use the same reasons to kill off the millions of web ads and email spam that infest the Internet like Cockroaches. Now THAT would be news!
That also need to arrest that overly generous Nigerian prince who never seems to run out of money!
So-called pirate radios have appeared in most parts of China since 2015 and this "has been a channel for criminals to defraud and promote aphrodisiacs, along with counterfeit and poor-quality medicine.
No surprise here, given the objectives of the ruling party China.
What happened in 2015 to cause so many "pirate radio broadcasts"? It's not as if the technology to accomplish this was just invented. News from China continues to send chills down my spine.
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So... did Jeff Bezos and Satya Nadella get into a fight the night before?
I doubt that, but yeah, it is a rather nasty way for a bug to manifest!
I need to backup my pickup truck and pickup my backup!
Your microphone has recorded your words.
Your not really encrypted messages have been stored.
Your location has been logged.
Your search history has revealed your preferences.
This took mere seconds. Agents of old needed days.
This is progress gentlemen. Embrace it.
Did you try rebooting your speakers?
No need to worry. The bug ridden head set port is getting removed! Stability will reign once again in the kingdom!
I do not want to subscribe to and eat cookies as a service full of bugs.
Mother Microsoft always knows best. Listen to your mother. Skip the drama, stay with mamma. MS knows best!
- In honor of a Disney film.
I thought Windows 10 was so stable that those were a thing of the past?
So, if I scan the QR code, does it give me a coupon for a discount on my next Microsoft purchase?
Are you trying to say, governments haven't spied on and persecuted opponents before these modern-day conveniences appeared?
Yes, yes they have. But, never has it been easier. Modern "smart devices" are like having a KGB agent in every home, office, and bathroom.
We can live without them, but the life will be, wait for it, less convenient.
"Less convenient" these days is fast approaching "Impossible to live without" - practically the definition of addiction.
They make living more comfortable. For everyone — including the spies.
This makes spying much easier.. for the spies.
Ask Facebook or Google. They are pioneers in the invasion of privacy. :P
Soon ads will be beamed into the brain directly - VR is just one step closer. Imagine a "fully immersive ad experience" in full surround sound... for the latest version of Candy Crush.
What I am waiting for is all the original Nintendo games, in time for the Christmas! ;)
Wouldn't surprise me if you find Soros funds the firm that bought these hacks off the dark web and weaponized them.
I agree.
But I have a question: What is Soros' end game? What goal is he striving to reach?
The dude's old and rich, what gets him out of bed in the morning? I know many say he eats green eggs and evil for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but to what end?
I ask, because I do not know, not because I do not believe it.
Closed source, open source, half-way open source - they all have holes the size of the Titanic, and are casing our privacy to sink to the bottom of the ocean. We have burned our life rafts and strapped ourselves to the deck. The problem is our dependence on these "conveniences" we can now not live without.
The more we depend on technology, the more vulnerable we become to those that use it to erode our freedoms and privacy. I enjoy the benefits of using technology, it has made many things more convenient, and has also stolen more of my time than I care to admit...
It seems though, that now, no matter where you are, and who you are, the leash attached to our connected technology is tied to an increasingly meaner and nastier junk yard dog that is very hungry.
I suspect the reason it's a problem in China is because the government tightly regulates internet access there, so the quacks have gone to the airwaves instead. They're dealing with radio spam.
China tightly regulates Internet access. From what? Things the government does not want the people to hear. Going to the airwaves as an alternative to avoid Internet censorship is an understandable option for dissenters to take.
I'm sure true Radio spam is there, it's everywhere else after all. But I suspect China's definition of radio spam is a bit different than yours or mine.
Worldwide, pirate radio has been around for as long as radio has been regulated, but I think China's situation has more to do with politics than the good of the people.
Doesn't Oracle own the patent on Solitaire?
I see a flock of lawyers placing pre-orders for new yachts in the near future...
I won't be impressed until a fully interactive holographic version of Pokemon Go is projected from my display after I think about performing a Google search on LOL cats.
I once played the single player version tic-tac-toe on paper for 24 hours straight, I always won. I'm considering going pro.
Even if everyone's lives individually get worse, well, society and the Public are collectively better!
The good of the collective is the supreme objective. Your individual rights are irrelevant. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
I take it you are from the Ministry of Public Gramatical Errors Criminal Investigation Department? ;)
"Mr. Anderson... do you wish to take the red pill, the blue pill, or the purple pill?"
"You take the blue pill, the commercials end. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, with your ad blocker uninstalled and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. You take the purple pill you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe about what happened the night before."
Foxconn's "other" business venture...
I wish 'they' would use the same reasons to kill off the millions of web ads and email spam that infest the Internet like Cockroaches. Now THAT would be news!
That also need to arrest that overly generous Nigerian prince who never seems to run out of money!
Your reply was not authorized by the Ministry of Slashdot Posting Conformity Criminal Investigation Department.
Your illegal account will be terminated along with your access to the Internets.
So-called pirate radios have appeared in most parts of China since 2015 and this "has been a channel for criminals to defraud and promote aphrodisiacs, along with counterfeit and poor-quality medicine.
No surprise here, given the objectives of the ruling party China.
What happened in 2015 to cause so many "pirate radio broadcasts"? It's not as if the technology to accomplish this was just invented. News from China continues to send chills down my spine.
I thought they got rid of him?!
*ducks