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silverweb

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4. We've been told for years.

Reply to Phillip McCleod (Original post)

Fri Jun 14, 2013, 11:21 PM

Jun 2013

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Cordless phones are not private. Cell phones are not private. Email and other on-line activity can not be assumed to be private. ANYONE with the technological know-how can hack these things.

We KNOW that corporate entities data mine for statistical and advertising purposes all the time, and should always have assumed that the NSA had their finger in the technological pie all along.

Anyone who has continued to think their cellular phone calls, emails, and other on-line activity were "private" is pretty damn naive or just plain dumb.

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Face It:: The Internet is Yelling Across a Crowded Room [View all] Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 OP

Exactly, and people are now flocking to programs like Warpy Jun 2013 #1

nailed it imo. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #5

No It Isn't ... ThePhilosopher04 Jun 2013 #2

ok maybe it's like sending a message by dogwhistle across a room crowded.. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #3

A dangerous assumption... ElboRuum Jun 2013 #6

exactly. that 'someone' was Manning and now Snowden. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #14

Uncle Sam is the least of my concerns in this new era. ElboRuum Jun 2013 #15

that's it exactly.. when we send messages electronically.. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #17

We've been told for years. silverweb Jun 2013 #4

thank you, yes. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #8

That turned out well! silverweb Jun 2013 #10

me too! Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #18

Precisely. ElboRuum Jun 2013 #9

Open society? silverweb Jun 2013 #12

Narcissism... ElboRuum Jun 2013 #16

yep. exactly why i used the analogy of yelling across a crowed bar. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #20

Whispering is hardly a remedy for what appears to await us Vinnie From Indy Jun 2013 #7

ah, but all is not lost.. consider.. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #11

Your wisdom is but pearls before swine in my case Vinnie From Indy Jun 2013 #13

Well in fact no one is even listening unless they have just cause. DCBob Jun 2013 #19

not true at all. not even slightly or sort of true. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #21

"listening" as in recording conversations/chats/emails, etc. DCBob Jun 2013 #22

wrong again. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #23

you fail to understand the issue.. DCBob Jun 2013 #24