Day: July 26, 2022

THEIR OWNERS, NOT SO MUCH……

I have a Cell Phone. It’s not a Smart Phone. It’s just a cheap Flip Phone. No one has the number. I keep it charged up and turned off. This way, if I’m away from home and need to make a phone call, it’s always at full charge when I need it to be. That’s why I own a phone. So I can use it when I need it, not when others want to reach me for their purposes. I have a home phone for that.

Smart phones connect to the Internet, Flip Phones do not. Flip Phones just connect to the phone service you use. In truth there isn’t much difference there and one can be hacked as easily as the other. It’s the uses you put them to.

If you carry a cell phone only to use for really necessary and vital communications, you are safeguarding your life. If you use it to send and receive photos including intimate ones, do Google searches, store passwords, bank accounts, pay bills, record conversations, video events in your life, in short store everything that goes on in your life on your Smart Phone, you are handing over everything there is to know about you to anyone who can gain access to this information, and they can do anything with that information they want to.

Governments can and do gain access to this information.

Governments encourage the ownership and use of Smart Phones. The Chinese Communist Party requires that you have and use Smart Phones and your station and privileges in life are determined by your Social Score, which itself is determined by what’s on your Smart Phone. Our government applauds this Chinese system. Yours does too. Of course. They want total control of your life.

The less you show up as an electronic presence, the less attention you will receive. If you’re a Twitter and Facebook habitue, you no doubt have a bigger presence than you realize and your words continue to expand on the pattern that is you in some mega-computer somewhere, where advanced AI is continually redefining you as benign, a mild threat, an increasing threat, a tax cheater, some sort of criminal, a potential employee, some sort of liability and so on. This sounds like paranoid conspiracy nut stuff right now but it actually isn’t, it’s just not as fully implemented yet as it will be in the future. Just don’t think that none of the above applies to you, because it does. It’s known that our government is keeping track of us with mega-computers, just how far it goes is still secret. But if you look to China as an example of this, they already have it down. If they do, why wouldn’t we?

Smart Phones are like Television. Could you turn off your TV and never turn it on again? We’re easily addicted to anything that makes our lives more interesting or easier and that lets us feel popular and “liked”. Being able to communicate with strangers around the world is pretty heady stuff, to spout off with our opinions in a global forum makes us feel important. It creates the illusion of having lots of friends and dispels loneliness, what’s not to like?

Humans are sheep. Very few of us stray from the flock but the funny thing is, we who do aren’t the ones in the most danger, they are. The wolves aren’t coming for us. Not yet anyway.

Every one of you people who have Amazon Ring doorbell cameras and Blink camera systems is contributing to the total destruction of anything resembling democracy in the world. You are AIDING AND ABETTING the total control of everyone everywhere and the complete destruction and loss of every bit of your privacy.

Amazon has provided footage from Ring video cameras to police without permission from owners or a court warrant 11 times so far this year. This is a direct violation of Constitutional rights, and Amazon’s excuse is that it seemed “reasonable” to do so at the time.

Ring now lets 2,161 police departments use its Neighbors app and this is a growing list. It’s easy to see that eventually every police department and state and federal agency will have access to the video of every Ring user because this won’t stop, it will keep spreading. As it always does.

Blink security systems are compatible with Ring and this is probably no accident. With Blink you buy the system, install it yourself and then pay Blink $15 a month to use it. That’s right, you only THOUGHT you owned it when you bought it. You don’t, Blink does and they own every bit of the video recorded that you can only access by paying them $15 a month instead of being able to keep it on your own computer for free.

They can look at all the video from your indoor cameras as well as the outdoor ones, and give or sell it to anyone they choose. Like government agencies.

I have a home video camera security system, it’s called Defender. You can get it with 2 cameras or 4 cameras depending on your needs. It comes with a monitor screen. You mount the cameras and plug them in to power outlets, then you plug in the monitor. That’s it. You’re done. Turn on the monitor and there’s the views from your cameras, you can switch from single camera to split screen, the cameras have motion detection, good infra-red night vision and there’s 2-way sound, you can talk to people near the cameras and hear what they say and any other noises going on, day or night, you can set it to record when motion is detected and the recording is done on a memory card you insert into the monitor and can replay. No $15 or other fees, no one else looking at your videos, no invasion of your privacy.

Don’t be a Stupid Fucker. Don’t buy ANY security system that connects to the internet or cell phones.