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12-04-2011, 09:32 AM
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Master Dwellar
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Is your smartphone spying on you?
found this article in the chronicle this morning. pretty interesting stuff here. here is a link to the Article
Last week, Android app developer Trevor Eckhart warned that software from a company called Carrier IQ was transmitting all kinds of data back to the company – even information which is entered into secure websites. pretty interesting stuff.
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12-04-2011, 11:47 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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OK Class, Can anyone here tell me the premise of George Orwell's novel, 1984?
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12-04-2011, 11:53 AM
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still says videotape
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I could but then Big Brother might notice my activity.
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12-04-2011, 12:03 PM
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
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I'm getting worried about this stuff. I don't have a smart phone nor do I want one.
The choices for "phones" are getting VERY limited. The additional $30 per month are ridiculous. $360 per year plus taxes ?!?!?!?!?
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12-04-2011, 12:47 PM
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Radical Centrist
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Companies that used this technology:
AT&T Apple Sprint T-Mobile Companies that did not: Verizon Wireless RIM (Blackberry) HP Microsoft Nokia |
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12-04-2011, 12:49 PM
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LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Arkansas
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Well as Long as you stay away from the Animal Porn sites who cares if they are tracking you
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12-04-2011, 01:41 PM
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 But isn't the GPS component working even when the phone is not being used. If so, then it's not just a matter of which web sites, but everything the phone (not you) experiences. |
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12-04-2011, 02:58 PM
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
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Dumb Question ...
Is what I do on my phone, call/text, related to this or is it just smart phones and your web surfing etc.? Forget the service provider for the moment.
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12-04-2011, 03:36 PM
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This is a fully functional babe lair
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I believe it is just smart phones, but there may be some form of it on normal cell phones as well since they claim this is intended for network usage management and maintenance. Personally, I'm unnerved at the fact that this service can track all of my login information, regardless of secure or encrypted connections because it is physically on the phone itself. Case in point, mobile banking applications from which I can access accounts. Not good. And as benevolent as they may claim they are being with this information, I am truly disinclined to trust them based on the fact that this has been going on for years and is just now coming to light. And not through their own good will/transparency to the consumer, but by more or less being exposed by consumers with technical know-how to find it in the first place.
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12-04-2011, 09:46 PM
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Read? I only know how to write.
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Everytime I get undressed, my smartphone whistles at me. It is called a Smart phone. It knows a good thing when it sees it.
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12-05-2011, 02:46 PM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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I thought it was just me. Wait, my phone makes retching noises. Is that normal? |
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12-05-2011, 06:03 PM
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Read? I only know how to write.
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12-07-2011, 07:37 AM
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The Un-Tuckian
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Yet another reason to boycott "smart" phones.
Well...that, and money.
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12-07-2011, 09:08 AM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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 That's the same reason I boycott yachts, private jets, in-home swimming pools, fine wines, not-fine wines, and vacations of any kind. Down with things that cost me money! I refuse to buy them!
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12-07-2011, 09:19 AM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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