A few months back, one of the neighbors stopped and introduced himself while I was working
out in the yard. He retired from down in Assachsetts and moved up here. The back corner
of his property abuts the back corner of ours and he inquired about crossing through
to get to the conservation area that is out behind us.
Previous to that interaction I had no idea of his existence. Last week, after the snow I saw
tracks out back and sent him a text to see how far he made it. He responded that it was just
a short hike to check things out.
That was it. One text out, one text back. No other interaction.
Saturday as I logged into facebook, he was the first in line of "friend suggestions".
Ain't that digital stalking thing creepy?
ReplyDeleteYou're still on FuckedBook?? OR any social disease, er, media for that matter?
ReplyDeleteI may be a bit slow here as I do not deal with cell phones and I never got anywhere near facebook as I knew it was just wrong.
ReplyDeletea bit old school, I just knew the sites like "my space", face book and anything else like it was nothing but a trap for intel gathering either for the feds or assholes trying to sell you shit. so I have no idea what the meaning is here.
I kind of like it, being cut off from most of the bullshit going on out there. and I got rid of the boob tube years ago as I knew they where lying their ass off on damn near everything after the 1990's
life is rather nice and quiet here in the woods, except deer season of course !
one thing I can tell you is, 90% of the time the 1st feeling you get about something is more than likely the right one.
and if your dog does not like them, you will not either.
with this site, you are a nail that sticks up to them, so be careful of who you trust or let in your circle of friends.
the feds spend money like mad just to set someone up, case in point is the "kidnap" bullshit. wonder what that cost all total ?
Anon@7:09 Agreed. Facebook is a honey pot. LOL seems friendly but like reading my dog---it ain't right. As you suggest it "was just wrong" and still is.It is an intel gathering warehouse. If you talk about anything other than your wife's chocolate chip cookies you are in the net. My small piece of advise get off fb. To everyone else trust your gut. always all the time. As the old saying goes beware be aware. True.
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Address? Maybe GPS tracking that puts you/him in close proximity?
ReplyDeleteBuy. Consume. Obey. Release info. You are slave.
ReplyDeleteWhat was that'80's movie? They Live? Ohio Guy
It's your phone number. CrookBook is tracking your contacts.
ReplyDeleteYet another reason to delete your account. I used to have one too but I deleted it 5 years ago. It took me about 37 seconds to get over it even though I had probably 1500 people on my friends list. I figure if someone who matters wants to get a hold of me they'll know how and so far it's been working pretty good.
Fully concur! We did the same and after a couple months of the wife grumbling "We can't see the grandkids pictures", she finally accepted that the grandkids pics were never posted on Fascistbook anyway. We lost nothing by the decision.
DeleteI don't use it but FB keeps a shadow profile of everyone, account or not.
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years ago after having run ins with the township and some neighbors, i happened to be off one day. me and one kid here. in the past i had gotten into it quite a bit with the township and they didnt like that. so, two cars show up in the long driveway, look like a white guy manager and wetback werk crews. i hustle out to meet them part way up the driveway. dear leader gets out and says they do windows (priority for wife, not me). and then he said "we'd really like to get in there". i say just give me a card. fancy card, which i tossed. and one interesting statement. their "project" was not about the windows.
ReplyDeleteAll you have to do is mention someones name around one of these spy devices for that to happen. In my work we get new customers all the time and when I say a new customers name to my colleagues they become a suggestion. Before they even call them. It also works with the GPS autofill. I go to the job first and then pass the job off and whoever picks it up from there the GPS pre populates the address.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just fascistbook. We have Dish and watch everything at least a day late. We record everything to zoom past the commercials. Anyhow, watching things I routinely do a quick look-up to see an actor's past movies/shows and I never get more than halfway through a first name and the entire name is suggested. And I'm talking about some really obscure actors. How does it know? Hmmm?
ReplyDeleteGoogle location, correlation to timeline, other apps having permissions to damn near everything on your device or his. His phone pings location on your land, you get the suggestion. Texts are all mined for data and word searched, matched against phone numbers, that is at least four points of contact: 2 txt, at least one location and a phone number match. And they cannot find the illegals whom are let in by the hundreds of thousands and handed "obama" phones and "free" federal services.
ReplyDeleteMy son signed up for Signal, the encrypted messaging app. Within a half hour his neighbor sent him a Signal and said they should communicate that way. He immediately uninstalled the app. Even "good" apps unduly spy on you.
ReplyDeleteSignal asks for permission to access your address book and searches for those who are on signal. You are prompted during setup and can deny this permission.
DeleteI use Signal to message and talk to a couple people in my contacts. I was told it was end to end encryption so a text or conversation couldn't be intercepted and read by anyone you didn't want to know what was being discussed. I was kind of appalled that the first time I opened it, there were a couple people already in the signal contact list. I didn't know that you could block its access to your contacts. I'll have to look into that.
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They also monitor your microphone listening for keywords. My wife & I were talking one Saturday morning about setting up my telescope later that evening. Well, later that afternoon she go on the computer and all these ads & links to stories about telescopes popup on her computer. Coincidence? I think not. Big Brother is here!
ReplyDeleteIf they monitor for keyword for marketing, they're also monitoring for keywords for political purposes as well.
It's all about control.
A couple years ago, I was talking to my brother on the phone. At that time I had a VOIP line through Comcast. He's on his cell. During the conversation, I mentioned the word "church". Within 5 minutes after we get done talking, my phone rings. Caller ID identifies some "church" in South Carolina as the calling party. Next day, I'm talking to my brother again and tell him about the call from the church and explain that our conversation is probably being monitored for keywords. My brother tells me (he always tells me this when his cognitive dissonance kicks in) I'm a conspiracy theorist (well, I am, but there's none left because they've all come true ;-))). He doesn't believe that phone carriers spy on conversations or that other "agencies" might do that also.
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We know what Alexander Graham Bell said on his first call to Watson because someone was listening in taking notes.
DeleteHaving retired from outside plant work first at Bell and then Verizon I can tell you first hand that everything is monitored for one reason or another. There is no privacy in using communications devices.
I've stated before. Went to my old, and current daughters college town last fall for Dad's day. I always let them take me shopping and would buy them something. Walked out of the shop in the old downtown area and bingo, got a text thanking me for my visit. WTF I never used my phone in there. I showed to my daughter and said this is loss of privacy which I don't approve of. Of course young and dumb like I once was no big deal.
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm out and about I turn my phone off and I rarely have location services on, even at home. When I'm in unfamiliar territory, I use old school GPS, paper maps. ;-))
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Turning off your phone doesnt do shit. Removing the battery does, but most can't be removed anymore.
Deletenothing wrong with Fakebook and their Pakistani "fact-checkers" I use it to post whatever conservative/rightist memes and photographs I can find until I get "put in jail" for 90 days; then I just begin again. if enough of us do this, even the dimmest of bulbs might get the idea.
ReplyDeleteYou have summed up rather succinctly why I'm not on social media, and why I use duckduckgo as a search engine....
ReplyDeleteExactly this...and stay the hell off my property unless invited...
Deleteone of two things, he may have searched for you on Facebook, which linked the two of you together - or - Facebook is monitoring your texts. It should be easy enough to test if you're really interested in tracking the source.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is tracking the contacts by phone number.
DeleteThis is the type of thing that I started noticing almost 10 years ago. I deleted my fake book account in 2013.
ReplyDeleteYou're getting discussed over at the anonymous conservative blog regarding surveillance and gang stalking. Also the attacks on cold Fury and busted knuckles. You might want to check it out. They have some interesting information there.
ReplyDeleteThanks Doug, I'll check it out.
DeleteI have a brother in law that works for a 3 letter group, he is a techie now (got old) and I trust him as far as I can move a mountain. he is a sneaky bastard , always was. even he kept his "phone" in a metal box thing when he wasn't using it.
ReplyDeleteafter seeing that shit, I got rid of mine. I gotten to the point I will not even talk with anyone who has a "smart" phone on them. I remember back in the late 1970's a officer I worked with told me the only safe computer is on that not on, or even connected to anything. even then, he didn't trust them. he was very firm about that. even had a cutout for the power cord.
it where I first learned about stand alone computers and "safe rooms" for electronics
I always wonder about the cash for clunkers program as well, it did get rid of a lot of working cars/trucks that didn't have computers in them. weird thinking, I know. but a lot of weird shit has bein proven true in the passage of time.
question is ,how far do you trust the clowns working in gov't these days ? or is it the private sector we have to worry about more ?
"... how far do you trust the clowns working in gov't these days ? or is it the private sector we have to worry about more ?"
ReplyDeleteNo difference, really.
yea, your right about that part. I do not trust any of them anymore. and any tech is something I don't trust either.
Deletestill don't have a cell phone either. there still are a few pay phones around if I need one.
I have a cellphone (Pocket snitch), but am mindful of where I carry it. 90% of the time it's on my computer radiator getting some wind blown into it. No one needs to know where I go, when or why. Since I only use it for a camera and around my business, like other enlightened people, I keep it in a metal cookie tin. Eventually I'll make a full attenuated / copper lined box for one with a removable battery.
ReplyDeleteAnything I need to send that's "semi-private" goes over either Ricochet or U/Qtox; really private stuff is encrypted locally with PGP tools, then transmitted to the recipient who can decrypt it and read. A dark box (amnesiac live boot OS w/o internet) with Linux is ideal since anything Windows keylogs everything and is backdoored. I haven't got around to converting one of my old computers (1998 rig / slot processor) to a dark box yet.
I'm very adverse to computers and technology these days... if people knew the half of what was tracked, they would probably banish tech from their homes.
A friend of mine used to whisper weird shit into his wife's phone at night butso she would get some pretty bizarre advertising the next day.
ReplyDeleteI've never had any social media anything since I'm kinda antisocial anyway, it just never appealed to me. Now that I know that it's a big tech data gathering conspiracy I feel vindicated.