Is the forum being monitored?

[Vicus]

Just an anecdote...

I do posses a smart phone, I buy it only because a job necessitate,for use that thing you need a register by Google...
I used this search machine until came new alternative(2005) and then never again,EVER!

Well,I finish that job 4 years ago...and from that time 99,99% I don't take it with me (the smart a§§)wherever I go, at home is always in another room from where I'm... meeting with friends?
Yes,after we talk where and the time...I do got an analog phone at home too!

Google asked me 2 or 3 times to verify my account (because my traffic silent) for the records I'm almost always at home...

Last Summer I posted in Avalon about my encounter with a lonely swan at the lake,(by the way, now got his/her other half,I took photos too from them) I took photos and someone make a video from" us " (with my "smart A§§")

A week later or so Google tell me "We make a video with your swan photos, do you want it in you tube?" WTF?
My knee jerk reaction was: NO

Wait a second...Google can see all my photos gallery? this episode were just insane enough for me,BUT then remember that a week before that I took a picture from a piece of paper were was my Motherboard password given to a computer reparation clerk...

Lesson? well, I know that some people in this forum make post with their smart phones, that mean first given password...

Call me a conspiracy theorist in full if you wish, I take it as complement!

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Vicus (here)
Lesson? well, I know that some people in this forum make post with their smart phones, that mean first given password...

Call me a conspiracy theorist in full if you wish, I take it as complement!

I too needed a smart phone ... some of the cryptocoin exchanges I use require a "real" cell phone number (not just an SMS capable, Voice-Over-IP VOIP simulation) for two factor authentication. I too keep that phone almost always full powered off and, in my case, enclosed in an EMF bag that blocks all radio signals. I am pretty sure that it really is powered off, because if I don't use it for a year, the battery is still 99+% charged.

I also do not have any access on that phone to any of my main email, bank, DNS, social media accounts, or web servers. That phone has its own email and web accounts, for the few accounts that are needed for that phone's job. Those accounts are not otherwise used. So far as I know, that phone has never "known", seen or heard anything private, beyond generating a few transient Two-Factor-Authorization (2FA) authentication codes that were needed to access those crypto exchanges, where I never allow any non-trivial amount of funds to reside except in transit while accomplishing a crypto transaction. If driving on a long trip, I might take that phone with me, still powered off and still in its EMF bag, untrackable so far as I know, but available in case of an emergency, so long as I don't mind then being geolocated by the "authorities."