Richard, I think it's the price we pay for being digitally connected to the world. What you say reminds me of that movie Enemy of the State. Enemy Of The State - Trailer - (1998) - HQ
Enemy Of The State - Trailer - (1998) - HQ View on www.youtube.com Preview by Yahoo On Thursday, July 3, 2014 12:50 PM, "'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: On 7/3/2014 12:02 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: > Richard, FB has ALWAYS seemed like one, big, fat spider web to me. So > I'm saying "I told you so" and thanking our lucky stars for plain old > emailing. > Probably the spy-ware is built-in to Yahoo! as well as Google, but I haven't read about it being used to alter anything to try and influence an election, although I wouldn't put it past them. If you're using Microsoft Windows, you are probably already sending everything direct to the NSA for scrutiny. Just as soon as you access the internet data highway with your computer, security is out of the question. Many people do not realize that a computer connected to the internet reveals details about their personal life: who they are, where they work, where they go, who they visit and their surfing habits. It's all there - housed as digital information at a data center somewhere. All it needs is to be extracted. There are no secrets anymore. It's almost impossible to hide from the data collection even if you don't own a computer of mobile phone. 'How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace' by Frank M. Ahearn Lyons Press, 2010
