Here's a scathing "review" of Amazon's Echo speaker.
https://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-anyone-an-echo-1820981732
https://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-anyone-an-echo-1820981732
It warms my heart that others also value their privacy.
Tho it may be pissing in the wind, I will always fight against the Truman Show excesses of modern living.
Some pretty scary stuff out there, as I recently heard about a couple who had no pets, but for 3 days, with their phones OFF, talked about getting a cat, we need cat food, blah blah blah, as some type of test.
The phones were within earshot.
In 3 days, they received Facebook ads for.....wait for it........cat food.
Now, I don't know if this is true or not, but if it COULD be done, then what would stop those who would?
It warms my heart that others also value their privacy.
Tho it may be pissing in the wind, I will always fight against the Truman Show excesses of modern living.
Some pretty scary stuff out there, as I recently heard about a couple who had no pets, but for 3 days, with their phones OFF, talked about getting a cat, we need cat food, blah blah blah, as some type of test.
The phones were within earshot.
In 3 days, they received Facebook ads for.....wait for it........cat food.
Now, I don't know if this is true or not, but if it COULD be done, then what would stop those who would?
Long ago a techie found out our cell phones were never truly off. The microphone is always on.
I'm researching security cameras and have decided against Arlo, Nest and everything the common online and b&m stores are pushing. Most require a cloud based server from who knows what country accessable to to who knows what third party.
Got a quote of $2300 that will get me four 4k 8mp cameras with 4TB of recording space for a month on a hard drive that I will own. I'll have to do more research on accessing it via phone while away and hopefully be able to find some encryption to go with it. There has been a huge increase in homelessness in our area which is typical for living near a capital but this year it's very noticable. Have had stuff taken from our front porch and some sit there. Funny if it weren't for my wife being home alone.
In any case a small tip, do install a simple over the door bell. There is no false alarm with that one. Lol. All this tech is great but what happens when something is cut or power goes kaput?
I'll do my own surveillance as this by our tech companies is getting out of hand.
Well said James, good to see ya on as well!
Kind Regards,
John
Good point. I also noticed his recent absence.
It all pretty much started with the internet after the money pit wild west period, once the business model became tracking information collection, so it's probably kinda late to worry about it.
It's definitely too late to fix anything that really matters, now that we've handed the hen house over to the foxes.
This stuff doesn't happen by itself in a vacuum, follow the money.
Also, impossible to suck back what went out in ignorance of things to come. Funny tho how stuff you want to find and could just disappears.While you can't fix it, you can try to limit what you let out. That's a whole other topic tho!
Like what you said on follow the money, hit that nail on the head!
Kind Regards,
John
Good point. I also noticed his recent absence.
Yea James is a wealth of info, he was on my 1250 rebuild thread years back, always kind words just a true gent! His how to clean vinyl thread is fantastic. I've gleaned a lot of great info from it.