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RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - AshHill07 - 06-17-2013
(06-17-2013, 02:07 PM)Scumbag Wrote: And those who have nothing to hide please post a live video feed from your bedroom.
Don't even have a camera. And my Mic is only plugged in when I'm useing it.
Quite frankly, if people really want to listen into my conversations on Skype let them. Just don't hold me accountable when one of your Agents die of boredom.
RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - Marburg - 06-17-2013
Sorry Lady, but you're young & have alot to learn what real privacy is. The only way to have real privacy is to remove yourself from the grid entirely. Stop using the internet all together, throw away your cell/smartphones, trash your game consoles, DVR's ect.
Protesting skype will do nothing to protect you...It's like removing a tiny twig from a giant redwood.
The allegory of the boiling frog applies: A live frog is thrown into a pot of cold water. The heat is increased slowly as time passes. The frog, being gradually climatized over time, fails to notice the danger & is eventually boiled to death.
Hate to break it to you, but you've never expeirenced what life was like in cold water. You were born long after the steam started to rise, so your logic is fatally flawed by default
RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - Scumbag - 06-17-2013
You all made me laugh, kudos.
And read what Marburg wrote.
RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - SeaFalcon - 06-17-2013
Lol...
RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - Trail - 06-17-2013
I am using a microsoft OS, have skype, use firefox. have 3/4 digital distrubution services programs on my computer, use google, facebook and youtube on a daily basis. If they do not know what im doing they already know if not then through other means that we havent figured out yet (how about spyware that virus companies are not detecting on purpose? Not saying they are but they have multiple ways to keep track of your internet movement.
If I do everything to hide my internet footsteps then I am very limited in what I can do (online gaming is out of the question) and I mean I know a lot of ways to hide my internet identity. Honestly its like trying to follow the boycotts of these anti outsourcing groups and such. Youre gonna find your favorite groceries on there, or fast food restaurants etc etc.
RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - Eduard - 06-17-2013
And here I was sitting on skype and encouraging people to get their games in... more convenient ways. DAMN!
But ye, like others said above me, especially Marburg, if we are to really worry about our privacy on the internet then we should isolate ourselves completely in a cave and forget about the world.
It's like worrying about your food and trying to eat exclusively "healthy" food. If you only want to eat pure healthy food then you'll starve to death.
Moving on to another side of this discussion, let's assume they HAVE the possibility to spy us, still... What reason would they have to spy one random man out of the current 7 billion? What would make that random guy so special as to make entire corporations lose resources on him?
In my opinion, as long as you are not one of those big bad evil guys or people who the governments want to be disposed of, then I guess your privacy will remain simply because they do not care about you
RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - Lythrilux - 06-17-2013
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RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - Sarawr!? - 06-17-2013
(06-17-2013, 02:31 PM)Marburg Wrote: Sorry Lady, but you're young & have alot to learn what real privacy is. The only way to have real privacy is to remove yourself from the grid entirely. Stop using the internet all together, throw away your cell/smartphones, trash your game consoles, DVR's ect.
Protesting skype will do nothing to protect you...It's like removing a tiny twig from a giant redwood.
The allegory of the boiling frog applies: A live frog is thrown into a pot of cold water. The heat is increased slowly as time passes. The frog, being gradually climatized over time, fails to notice the danger & is eventually boiled to death.
Hate to break it to you, but you've never expeirenced what life was like in cold water. You were born long after the steam started to rise, so your logic is fatally flawed by default
This is probably the closest to the unfortunate truth as anyone else in this thread has come.
I'll be the first one to tell you that the fact that my emails, phonecalls, facebook posts, and all my skype and/or steam conversations are being cataloged somewhere, to be read by some government agent just because they can, disgusts the hell out of me, but there's really nothing that can be done about it, barring the complete removal of myself from the internet, and my going to live in some wood cabin in the middle of the woods.
As a Veteran, I find it absolutely disgusting (But it really doesn't surprise me at all LOL) that my government feels that it's justifiable to spy on me and millions of other American citizens, in the name of "stopping terrorism".
The more our government tramples on our "civil liberties' and personal freedoms, the closer the "terrorists" are to getting what they want.
Good Game, America, Good Game.
RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - zalsrevenge - 06-17-2013
This isn't surprising to me at all, and you really can't do anything about it. Real privacy has been a myth since the net really started to get big around the early 2000's. Your information from the net is stored in different places, and different people such as site admins have easy access to it. If they have reason to believe you are going to be doing something illegal, they can, with discretion, let the proper authorities know.
Don't do anything wrong and you won't have to worry about it. Either way, Big Brother has been spying on you for years. I suspected this a long, long time ago. Back in the early 2000's I would never, ever put my real name or real info on anything online. I always thought someone was spying on me. I guess I was right.
RE: PRISM: Let's drop Skype for Freelancer and move to something else. - Marburg - 06-17-2013
(06-17-2013, 04:49 PM)LolRawr!? Wrote: As a Veteran, I find it absolutely disgusting (But it really doesn't surprise me at all LOL) that my government feels that it's justifiable to spy on me and millions of other American citizens, in the name of "stopping terrorism".Honestly, it all deeply sucks at the root & I wish what I said earlier wasn't true. Unfortunately, it's the giant $*** sandwich of our era.
The more our government tramples on our "civil liberties' and personal freedoms, the closer the "terrorists" are to getting what they want.
I just wanted to add though that imo, unless the danger of 'terrorism' ever outweighs the danger of (for example) dying in a carcrash, all claims the west makes of dragnetting anything in the interest of security is just obvious piss & wind to me.
Just sayin' is all