Don't suspect your neighbor: report him!

11 years ago

Previously, previously.

Tags: big brother, computers, corporations, doomed, security, www

5 Responses:

1. Elusis says:

   11 years ago at 1:30 am

   If you see something, say something!

2. Different Jamie says:

   11 years ago at 1:47 am

   This is why I block FB domains at my router.

   A doomed effort, I know. My fucking phone is now bugging me to log in when I use apps to navigate my town. (Android fans, insert snark here. Then wait for it.)

   • Rodger Donaldson says:

     11 years ago at 2:41 am

     I'd love to snark, but they have their tentacles everywhere; plenty of Android phones ship with it as an un-removable pre-installed app. Christ only knows what it can grab hold of.

     • Ronald Pottol says:

       11 years ago at 11:13 am

       With my last phone, I really lost it. I bought a new phone last November, and only a month ago could I put a fully usable AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM on it, so I could get rid of all that bloatware. My 1.2ghz dual core 768MB ram phone finally feels peppy.

       From here on out, it's either a Google phone (out of the box unlocked AOSP) or something with a stable third party rom already out. I'm not putting up with that shit again.

       And yeah, CyanogenMod 9.1 isn't as stable as the original OS, but it boots so much faster (and with the original OS I needed to reboot my phone every few days anyways) , I spend less time rebooting now. And it is just nicer.

3. gryazi says:

   11 years ago at 6:22 pm

   Y'know, maybe this really doesn't affect pseudonymous accounts. Maybe it just lets them create an additional list of "verified" names they can sell to marketers at a higher rate and try to salvage some of that stock price.

   If so, we really need a word for these instances of capitalism 'seeming' creepy when it's 'just' douchey.