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Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
...they are already tracking everyone. there is an article on that....
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With all due respect; NP! An article?!? There are trillions. But your base premise is on da money honey. Take a leap of faith moment when reading the subject line of this post. I mean it from discrete components up to immensely large and widely distributed, yet interconnected, systems and much in between, across multiple generations of hardware and software platforms for decades.
Recall that Al Gore invented the internet, because he approved a spending bill that provided $ to the military for a projected called DARPA. Welp, I was DARPAing long before most of you ever heard of it. Let me put it this way; you were absorbed by the BORG a long time ago, by powers that have an unlimited budget, best of the best of the best tech - with honors sir - and many of the brightest minds to deploy and leverage it and you enabled it for the sake of convenience with $$ you didn't even know you had.
There is scant little you can do to unplug from much of anything. It is all about vectors. How many ways is data about you and your activities available and what you can do about it. The former, more than you can imagine. The latter, a lot, but not really. You are out manned, under funded and generally ignorant of much about you.
Not being a dick, but the reality is that electronic security is very encompassing and quite complex. It begins with little (tiny actually) and scales to the gigantic. So many devices are in on it too. By itself, that would not matter much. Who is the largest purchaser of data storage? Our benevolent government. And what they don't own, they have access to. You ever play with hyper-scale computers or quantum computers? You happen to remember that NASA app you could download to your PC to make it part of the collective to do space calculations - from 20 years ago?
Point being, you can minimize vectors. Set security settings for everything you encounter. Does your home internet router support encrypted DNS? Be aware that the next patch or upgrade of software may well change not only the settings, but where the settings are located and introduce new settings. For your phone, a tiny metallic/plastic RF bag, aka portable Faraday cage can reduce to near zero, signals coming/going to it. Your car is in on it as well. It has capability and storage, remotely accessible - unless you're driving a '55 Chebby.
Don't over fret it. Reduce vectors to the best of your ability. And hope a FISA warrant does not land within three people of your circle, which you would not know about anyway. Remember, cough/sneeze into your elbow and wash your damned hands.
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