Can the internet really spy on your conversations?

[Generalzod]

Yes it does. I just found James Bond rummaging thru my e-mails

I found the news of the world team going through my voice mail

 

[Generalzod]

I abused the PM that as on the TV
I was followed around by fed police the next day
explore your options, take the battery out of the phone

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

The feds caught all those blokes on their encrypted apps recently through a plant.

For all of their tech savvy, the gang weren’t successful in screening their own.

So when the brits cracked the enigma code, they had to sacrifice a few convoys etc to ensure the nazis didn’t wise up.

Same tactic is used today. Poses some tough ethical questions -do you let innocent people get caught up in things, perhaps dangerous things.

See also Scott A Rush, Bali nine. Visit the family website, get your letters off, hes learned his lesson, we’ve saved his life -now lets bring him home.

No man left behind ladsters.

 

[blue bags]

bronco are being watched

 

[Ghostface Killah]

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Taxed.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

The feds caught all those blokes on their encrypted apps recently through a plant.

For all of their tech savvy, the gang weren’t successful in screening their own.

So when the brits cracked the enigma code, they had to sacrifice a few convoys etc to ensure the nazis didn’t wise up.

Same tactic is used today. Poses some tough ethical questions -do you let innocent people get caught up in things, perhaps dangerous things.

See also Scott A Rush, Bali nine. Visit the family website, get your letters off, hes learned his lesson, we’ve saved his life -now lets bring him home.

No man left behind ladsters.

On this note, a side story..

my best mates’ grandmother turned out to be part of the code crackers… the role Keira Knightley played in The Imitation Game is based on her.. but more the point…

She didn’t say a single thing to even her closest of family and friends until the twilight of her life. Kept her word to keep everything in “the Bletchley circle” to herself during and beyond the war.

Was an absolute revelation to her family. Values eh…

These days you’d find people selling that story to the highest bidder ASAP. But then it was duty for King and Country. So much more admirable..

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

On this note, a side story..

my best mates’ grandmother turned out to be part of the code crackers… the role Keira Knightley played in The Imitation Game is based on her.. but more the point…

She didn’t say a single thing to even her closest of family and friends until the twilight of her life. Kept her word to keep everything in “the Bletchley circle” to herself during and beyond the war.

Was an absolute revelation to her family. Values eh…

These days you’d find people selling that story to the highest bidder ASAP. But then it was duty for King and Country. So much more admirable..

The greatest generation. I dip my hat to her memory.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

The greatest generation. I dip my hat to her memory.

Here’s an interview… I honestly get emotional whenever I see it.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Here’s an interview… I honestly get emotional whenever I see it.

Cheers, quite a moving account.

Feynman has an interesting account of his time at Los Alamos if you can find it. The Ruskies had at least 3 spies in the project.

Stalin was updated quicker than FDR.

 

[The Rosco]

2 days ago, snuck around the corner ( 5 houses away) to a mate's place . . . haven't seen him since lockdown.
He was showing me his new workbench he built, and in his garage we spoke about his sexy Milwaukee sliding drop saw.
This arvo, open my facebook, there's an ad for a sliding drop saw.
Merkins are watching you.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

2 days ago, snuck around the corner ( 5 houses away) to a mate's place . . . haven't seen him since lockdown.
He was showing me his new workbench he built, and in his garage we spoke about his sexy Milwaukee sliding drop saw.
This arvo, open my facebook, there's an ad for a sliding drop saw.
Merkins are watching you.

Which explains my personalised ads on lu:

* lingerie for pregnant Eskimo’s
* discount assorted rubber shoe-horns
* Shane Richardson’s book of cream donuts
* How to Sell to tightwads by @horrie hastings- 10 part podcast, millionaire by week 7 guarantee.

 

[Wizardman]

It deadset happens too often for it not to happen. Conversations with mates on facebook messenger....later, it pops up as an ad on facebook. I remember talking to a mate about the Val Kilmer movie "Top Secret". A facebook ad pops up with a special edition dvd......lol.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

It's been explained to me from IT types I know quite well...

Rather than listening in on conversations.... the "Big Data" or data network if you will knows who you are friends with (eg on facebook), who's near you/neighbours etc - google maps, gps etc etc - where they live, and where they have gone by phone tracking / QR codes, such as shops (Where you've been and how long you've been in there for). And also based on your activity on socials (eg who you engage with in likes, views etc etc the most...).

And thus, it can work out to promote ads to you of stuff your neighbour may have purchased (ie the Milwaukee kit mentioned before), a new car, etc etc. Similarly if a neighbour/friend has suffered grief - lost a love one or has someone gravely ill - which could be that a friend has checked into a hospital or something has been posted.... then you - being connected and engaged with them... might want to send flowers.... and ads will pop up. Just some examples...

It sounds reasonable (although still concerning) in theory... and might explain many examples of spying etc.

One thing that gets me though is bank transactions for things I haven't had to go to a shop for, rather paying by phone app etc.... how that leads to targetted ads is alarming. Shouldnt my banktivity be secure???

And another alarming thing, what prompted me to post this thread - when that I yelled at a dog barking next door to me, to find an ad on how to stop a barking dog popped up here on LU not long after..... From neighbours I don't engage with - and who (as I found out later) didnt have their pets registered as required by law.... frigging alarming.

I've come to the realisation that its more likely than not.... that my phone is listening in on me... and you.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

It's been explained to me from IT types I know quite well...

Rather than listening in on conversations.... the "Big Data" or data network if you will knows who you are friends with (eg on facebook), who's near you/neighbours etc - google maps, gps etc etc - where they live, and where they have gone by phone tracking / QR codes, such as shops (Where you've been and how long you've been in there for). And also based on your activity on socials (eg who you engage with in likes, views etc etc the most...).

And thus, it can work out to promote ads to you of stuff your neighbour may have purchased (ie the Milwaukee kit mentioned before), a new car, etc etc. Similarly if a neighbour/friend has suffered grief - lost a love one or has someone gravely ill - which could be that a friend has checked into a hospital or something has been posted.... then you - being connected and engaged with them... might want to send flowers.... and ads will pop up. Just some examples...

It sounds reasonable (although still concerning) in theory... and might explain many examples of spying etc.

One thing that gets me though is bank transactions for things I haven't had to go to a shop for, rather paying by phone app etc.... how that leads to targetted ads is alarming. Shouldnt my banktivity be secure???

And another alarming thing, what prompted me to post this thread - when that I yelled at a dog barking next door to me, to find an ad on how to stop a barking dog popped up here on LU not long after..... From neighbours I don't engage with - and who (as I found out later) didnt have their pets registered as required by law.... frigging alarming.

I've come to the realisation that its more likely than not.... that my phone is listening in on me... and you.

Serious criminals don’t use tech at all.

I suppose if they did, they’d get ads popping up for crow bars, keys, concealed weapons, gloves, strangers DNA to leave at the scene, etc!

Reported recently Apple wants to capture and expose child abuse material from iPhone and pc photo files. Being opposed by some, but I don’t know their arguments against this disclosure.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Well well..

Chatting to my dear yesterday about a bunch of clothes her girls wanted me to get for them on a trip to Sydney I had late last year, at Culture Kings…

Whattaya know, I’ve now got Cuiture Kings ads popping up on LU today.. never seen them before now…

There’s no Culture Kings stores in SA so can’t be linked to anyone I know here who may have been there /made a purchase…

Spying

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Well well..

Chatting to my dear yesterday about a bunch of clothes her girls wanted me to get for them on a trip to Sydney I had late last year, at Culture Kings…

Whattaya know, I’ve now got Cuiture Kings ads popping up on LU today.. never seen them before now…

There’s no Culture Kings stores in SA so can’t be linked to anyone I know here who may have been there /made a purchase…

Spying Muthafarkers….

Beautiful SA!

lu want to send me back to uni according to the ads in computing today.

They must know my iPhone is junk.