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And you think "they" are in control

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That's modern technology for you, e whole internet is ill-thought, ill-planned, lacking total security and prone to hacking, it is on complete shambles, we are relying on computers too much, may be we should take a step back! we are just making not only our lives easier but also theirs....

I feel sorry for the future of this planet, that is what will be the tool of choice by international terrorist, possibly they will use your own missiles and re-program them to fall on your own cities! future is very scary, all they need is a stolen Android phone! not looking good at all! :mrgreen:


I refuse to do internet banking, the day when my bank says they can no longer allow me to bank my money, I will retire to caves!
 
errm, a little apocalyptic, but I understand where you are coming from.

You seem to have only a rudimentary grasp of the internet, i.e. it has no inherent security whatsoever, but then nor does a door.
 
Whats the link about?

Didn't click it in case it infects my PC.
 
I have heard that the analogy that computer networks (not just the internet) are like roads. Lots of people drive up and down them. But when a road comes to your house, you have (depending on your needs) a security gate; a locked front door; a burglar alarm; and if you have sufficient valuables, a safe or a vault. You don't rely on keeping unauthorised people off the road.
 
Whats the link about?

Didn't click it in case it infects my PC.

I didn't either, the more you tell them who you are, the more vulnerable you become, they sell your details for a reward, but then you start getting junk mails, I have got to sort out over 7000 emails, I am just letting them sit there! I don't bother deleting them anymore!
 
Same here Mike.

The gathering and selling of information is big business. When you get something for free it’s far from; no such thing as a free lunch an’ all that.

I’ve stopped downloading so-called free android apps because they want access to everything about me and my whereabouts. So some innocuous-looking game, for instance, which doesn’t have anything to do with where I am, for some reason needs to keep switching my GPS location on. I could understand if I'd downloaded a Sat Nav app but why does a simple game of scrabble need to know this FFS?

A nob I used to work with always had a bee in his bonnet about planet Tesco and how they hold more information about you than just about any other ‘body’. I don’t know how true that was but I’ve never had so much junk mail in my life, (in every guise), from so many different sources who shouldn't even know my name. :x

Anyway, I once read that the Internet is mainly used for porn. Who would have thought such a useful and powerful tool, (no pun intended), would come to that. (Again, no pun intended).
 
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