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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Farm Journal - 2026
« Last post by sKePTiKal on Today at 07:54:49 AM »I have a BOOK of PAPER that I WRITE my passwords in, Hops. So far tech can't snoop/steal that info. Which is about what things are coming to, across the board: pay in cash (no records of what you bought where or phone/address needed for delivery), drive/walk into bank for transactions, don't order anything online or over the phone. IE, pre-Sears-Roebuck days.
I made 1 decision about getting my "data profile" removed yesterday. There are a couple more I'm contemplating; one is "invisible" to me as far as hoops to jump through - the other will need writing down, as well. Compromise between being invisible/safe and still having some conveniences will need to be made.
"Air gapping" is a technique that I've relied on for decades. Doing different things on different machines - so the bits and pieces of info that make up one's "identity" can't be so easily combined, to steal identity. No banking on phone - EVER. Poor old phone isn't compatible with ATT's app that skims out spam/phishing calls & texts but I'm still researching how far I want to go on the phone side of things. NO syncing between machines! It's sold as convenience but that convenience benefits those selling/buying your data the most.
I'll stop before your eyes glaze over... and my brain starts to smoke & fizzle.
Of course, I've known for ages that there is no such thing as privacy onine. I just accepted it, and in the beginning, places that required one's info in order to make purchases, establish accounts, did try to protect that data. Then the large data breaches began; even the gov't has been hacked. But gradually - behind the scenes - that data became "monetized". Ads can gather online behavioral patterns even if you don't see or click on them - and that data is SOLD to be people who bedevil our lives; it's harassment at it's most benign and theft at the other extreme.
I was totally DONE with all this stuff when I retired almost 20 years ago. But apparently it's not done with me. So I'm fighting back, a bit. Most of what I think of as "privacy" hasn't been an issue, knowing who I shop from or what I buy. I don't care about anything except business/financial stuff. And as my life is designed, that can be life threatening to me.
Looks like it's going to cool off this week! I hope so, I'm over the fruit fly invasion and want all the bugs to start heading into their winter cessation. My inceniary curmudgeonly self will also begin to hibernate, gradually.
I made 1 decision about getting my "data profile" removed yesterday. There are a couple more I'm contemplating; one is "invisible" to me as far as hoops to jump through - the other will need writing down, as well. Compromise between being invisible/safe and still having some conveniences will need to be made.
"Air gapping" is a technique that I've relied on for decades. Doing different things on different machines - so the bits and pieces of info that make up one's "identity" can't be so easily combined, to steal identity. No banking on phone - EVER. Poor old phone isn't compatible with ATT's app that skims out spam/phishing calls & texts but I'm still researching how far I want to go on the phone side of things. NO syncing between machines! It's sold as convenience but that convenience benefits those selling/buying your data the most.
I'll stop before your eyes glaze over... and my brain starts to smoke & fizzle.
Of course, I've known for ages that there is no such thing as privacy onine. I just accepted it, and in the beginning, places that required one's info in order to make purchases, establish accounts, did try to protect that data. Then the large data breaches began; even the gov't has been hacked. But gradually - behind the scenes - that data became "monetized". Ads can gather online behavioral patterns even if you don't see or click on them - and that data is SOLD to be people who bedevil our lives; it's harassment at it's most benign and theft at the other extreme.
I was totally DONE with all this stuff when I retired almost 20 years ago. But apparently it's not done with me. So I'm fighting back, a bit. Most of what I think of as "privacy" hasn't been an issue, knowing who I shop from or what I buy. I don't care about anything except business/financial stuff. And as my life is designed, that can be life threatening to me.
Looks like it's going to cool off this week! I hope so, I'm over the fruit fly invasion and want all the bugs to start heading into their winter cessation. My inceniary curmudgeonly self will also begin to hibernate, gradually.