On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 6:27:08 AM UTC-4, Diesel wrote:
trader_4
Mon, 10
Apr 2017 15:50:08 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

[big snip]

I fully realize the vast majority of users are ignorant as hell
concerning how the technology works. Downright ****ing stupid,
in some cases. Ignorance is a curable condition.. stupidity, ehh,
no cure for that.

You think just maybe instead it's that the vast majority of users
realize that google and similar will know we just googled for
"pizza near me" and don't care that the fact that we're looking
for pizza and our location has been sent to google?

Yes, I do. That's why I wrote the stupidity comment above. That don't
care attitude is what makes blackhat work possible, in many cases.

I see, so now those of us who use our smartphones to fine a pizza
or a restaurant are "stupid", unless we do it on a burner phone.
ROFL!




There is also anonymity in numbers. I doubt google has employees
sitting there, monitoring me, interested in the fact that I
googled for pizza, where I'm located and then trying to use that
for some nefarious purposes. In other words, like 99.9% of the
world, I don't need a burner phone.

That's the thing with computers these days though. You don't need an
employee to 'monitor' you or your habits. You can have a program
analyze the data much faster and much more accurately, if you wanted
to. If 99.9% (I really don't know where you get those figures) didn't
need/want a burner phone, the market wouldn't be able to support
their creation.


Wow, it's analyzed that I want to find an Indian restaurant near
where I'm located right now. My God! How awful! BTW, better
not drive in much of the US anymore. The major toll roads, for
example, are scanning your license plates, tracking who comes
and goes. Every car going into and out of NY City is logged.
Time to get a burner car!




There's no real anonymity (in this sense) when you have software that
doesn't need to take a break or sleep, analyzing piles of data. If
you're hunting for details on a specific person and trying to connect
the dots, it doesn't matter how large your data sample set is, the
program will have no trouble looking through it and building a very
accurate profile of you, the target.


There is anonymity because the computer doesn't know me or care
about me versus some guy in India or CA. The computer is finding
me the Indian restaurant near me, not compiling data to blackmail me.




Google reps once commented they could accurately predict the stock
market to the point of interfering with it. They weren't BSing about
that.

If anyone could do that, they would not be bragging they would be
trillionaires. But then you'd believe anything some kook says.