iPhone 5s .... Fingerprints

[Guest drv2fst]

If anyone is watching me through my iPhone and iMac cameras, they are going to be in for a really boring show.  You guys must lead a much more mysterious life than I to be so concerned about LE watching you through your own tech.

Edited September 15, 2013 by drv2fst

[Guest Lester Weevils]

If anyone is watching me through my iPhone and iMac cameras, they are going to be in for a really boring show. You guys must lead a much more mysterious life than I to be so concerned about LE watching you through your own tech.

Using ArmyBrat61's analogy, are you silly to have curtains on your house unless you are either a pretty girl or a meth cooker? If you are ugly enough to make a freight train take a dirt road, or if you are merely sitting on the crapper, or installed in a recliner watching TV-- Then isn't it paranoid to have curtains on the windows? Nobody wants to watch an ugly cuss, and what do you have to hide just watching TV? Just take down all the curtains and shades! Edited September 15, 2013 by Lester Weevils

[Guest drv2fst]

Using ArmyBrat61's analogy, are you silly to have curtains on your house unless you are either a pretty girl or a meth cooker? If you are ugly enough to make a freight train take a dirt road, or if you are merely sitting on the crapper, or installed in a recliner watching TV-- Then isn't it paranoid to have curtains on the windows? Nobody wants to watch an ugly cuss, and what do you have to hide just watching TV? Just take down all the curtains and shades!

 

Funny, sure, but not an appropriate analogy.  My neighbors and people passing by my house would be compelled by natural curiosity to look in and watch through no fault or effort on their own.  People actively trying to gain access through cameras on my tech devices is something entirely different.  That requires some significant effort to spy.  Learning through an unshaded window takes no effort at all.  There is a difference.  It's more like the difference between photographers snapping a picture of a celeb from a public street vs hacking their personal computer, big difference.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Funny, sure, but not an appropriate analogy. My neighbors and people passing by my house would be compelled by natural curiosity to look in and watch through no fault or effort on their own. People actively trying to gain access through cameras on my tech devices is something entirely different. That requires some significant effort to spy. Learning through an unshaded window takes no effort at all. There is a difference. It's more like the difference between photographers snapping a picture of a celeb from a public street vs hacking their personal computer, big difference.

Well I'm not particularly afraid of government surveillance, unless as you say they like a boring show. OTOH, ferinstance google is the biggest peeping tom manufacturer of spyware in the world, and my life isn't something its any of their biz to tabulate and abstract.

Plus all the othe big-time and small-time spies. Some of the nicer scientific calculator matlab type apps come from "on the surface" smalltime chinese and russian developers, and request more permissions than seems reasonable to me. What's wrong with this picture? If I kept ANYTHING at all sensitive on my phone I wouldn't use those apps. But I use em currently because there isn't much on the phone worth stealing.

Not to mention that it tain't nobody's business. I dont want the post office reading my mail either, even if they are "merely" snooping on utility bills.

It doesn't even have to be gov snooping, corporate targeted marketing, or anonymous thieves.

In 2007 I bought yet another macbook and set it up. I'm on some tech maillists where the users get mad if you post html mail, so the first setup detail I do is set mail plain text only, mono spaced programmers font, send and read.

So I never see html formatted mail unless there are rare biz mails where I need to see the formatting.

So anyway, after a few weeks I looked at a biz related html mail and noticed my kewl Mac "user picture" was going out on html mails, a picture apparently auto-snapped by that nifty kewl Mac during setup, of me shirtless with a three days growth of beard. Thanks Apple! So I replaced the user pitcher with a pitcher of a can of rem oil and everything was fine.

But in that case it was an embarrassing picture broadcast because the dang puter was trying to be helpful and kewl. Edited September 15, 2013 by Lester Weevils

[Guest TankerHC]

Using ArmyBrat61's analogy, are you silly to have curtains on your house unless you are either a pretty girl or a meth cooker? If you are ugly enough to make a freight train take a dirt road, or if you are merely sitting on the crapper, or installed in a recliner watching TV-- Then isn't it paranoid to have curtains on the windows? Nobody wants to watch an ugly cuss, and what do you have to hide just watching TV? Just take down all the curtains and shades!

 

Holy crap that was funny. New one for me, Ill be using it.