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The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone And Everything Will Is Monitored
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Can you imagine a world where your home, your vehicles, your appliances and every single electronic device that you own is constantly connected to the Internet? This is not some grand vision that is being planned for some day in the future. This is something that is being systematically implemented right now. In 2015, we already have “smart homes”, vehicles that talk to one another, refrigerators that are connected to the Internet, and televisions that spy on us.
Our world is becoming increasingly interconnected, and that opens up some wonderful possibilities. But there is also a downside. What if we rapidly reach a point where one must be connected to the Internet in order to function in society? Will there come a day when we can’t even do basic things such as buy, sell, get a job or open a bank account without it? And what about the potential for government abuse? Could an “Internet of Things” create a dystopian nightmare where everyone and everything will be constantly monitored and tracked by the government? That is something to think about.
Today, the Internet has become such an integral part of our lives that it is hard to remember how we ever survived without it. And with each passing year, the number of devices connected to the Internet continues to grow at an exponential rate. If you have never heard of the “Internet of Things” before, here is a little bit about it from Wikipedia…
Things, in the IoT, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters, automobiles with built-in sensors, or field operation devices that assist fire-fighters in search and rescue. These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices. Current market examples include smart thermostat systems and washer/dryers that utilize wifi for remote monitoring.
But there is also a dark side to the Internet of Things. Security is a huge issue, and when that security is compromised the consequences can be absolutely horrifying. Just consider the following example…
It is a strange series of events that link two Armenian software engineers; a Shenzen, China-based webcam company; two sets of new parents in the U.S.; and an unknown creep who likes to hack baby monitors to yell obscenities at children. “Wake up, you little ****,” the hacker screamed at the top of his digital lungs last summer when a two-year-old in Houston wouldn’t stir; she happened to be deaf. A year later, a baby monitor hacker struck again yelling obscenities at a 10-month-old in Ohio.
Both families were using an Internet-connected baby monitor made by China-based Foscam. The hacker took advantage of a weakness in the camera’s software design that U.S.-based Armenian computer engineers revealed at a security conference in Amsterdam last April.
The Internet allows us to reach into the outside world from inside our homes, but it also allows the reverse to take place as well.
Do we really want to make ourselves that vulnerable?
Sadly, we live at a time when people don’t really stop to consider the downside to our exploding technological capabilities.
In fact, there are many people that are extremely eager to connect themselves to the Internet of Things.
In Sweden, there are dozens of people that have willingly had microchips implanted under the skin. They call themselves “bio-hackers”, and they embrace what they see as the coming merger between humanity and technology. The following is what one of the founders of a Sweden based bio-hacking community had to say during one recent interview…
“The technology is already happening,” says Hannes Sjoblad, one of the founders of BioNyfiken. “We are seeing a fast-growing community of people experimenting with chip implants, which allow users to quickly and easily perform a variety of everyday tasks, such as allowing access to buildings, unlocking personal devices without PIN codes and enabling read access to various types of stored data.
“I consider the take-off of this technology as another important interface-moment in the history of human-computer interaction, similar to the launches of the first windows desktop or the first touch screen. Identification by touch is innate for humans. PIN codes and passwords are not natural. And every additional device that we have to carry around to identify ourselves, be it a key fob or a swipe card, is just another item that clutters our lives.”
And of course this is happening in the United States as well…
In America, a dedicated amateur community — the “biohackers” or “grinders” — has been experimenting with implantable technology for several years. Amal Graafstra, a 38-year-old programmer and self-styled “adventure technologist”, has been inserting various types of radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips into the soft flesh between his thumbs and index fingers since 2005. The chips can be read by scanners that Graafstra has installed on the doors of his house, and also on his laptop, which gives him access with a swipe of his hand without the need for keys or passwords.
But you don’t have to have a microchip implant in order to be a part of the Internet of Things.
In fact, there are a whole host of “wearable technologies” that are currently being developed for our society.
For instance, have you heard about “OnStar for the Body” yet? It will enable medical personnel to constantly monitor your health wherever you are…
Smart, cheaper and point-of-care sensors, such as those being developed for the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE, will further enable the ‘Digital Checkup’ from anywhere. The world of ‘Quantified Self’ and ‘Quantified Health’ will lead to a new generation of wearable technologies partnered with Artificial Intelligence that will help decipher and make this information actionable.
And this ‘actionability’ is key. We hear the term Big Data used in various contexts; when applied to health information it will likely be the smart integration of massive data sets from the ‘Internet of things’ with the small data about your activity, mood, and other information. When properly filtered, this data set can give insights on a macro level – population health – and micro – ‘OnStar for the Body‘ with a personalized ‘check engine light’ to help identify individual problems before they further develop into expensive, difficult-to-treat or fatal conditions.
If that sounded creepy to you, this next item will probably blow you away.
According to one survey, approximately one-fourth of all professionals in the 18 to 50-year-old age bracket would like to directly connect their brains to the Internet…
According to a survey by tech giant Cisco Systems, about a fourth of professionals ages 18 to 50 would leap at the chance to get a surgical brain implant that allowed them to instantly link their thoughts to the Internet.
The study was conducted on 3,700 adults working in white-collar jobs in 15 countries.
“Assuming a company invented a brain implant that made the World Wide Web instantly accessible to their thoughts, roughly one-quarter would move forward with the operation,” the study found.
In the end, they are not going to have to force most of us to get connected to the Internet of Things.
Most of us will do it eagerly.
But most people will never even stop to consider the potential for abuse.
An Internet of Things could potentially give governments all over the world the ability to continually monitor and track the activities of everyone under their power all of the time.
If you do not think that this could ever happen, perhaps you should consider the words of former CIA director David Petraeus…
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation Internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing”
Are you starting to get the picture?
They plan to use the Internet of Things to spy on all of us.
But we just can’t help ourselves. Our society has a love affair with new technology. And some of the things that are being developed right now are beyond what most of us ever dreamed was possible.
For example, Microsoft has just released a new promotional video featuring 3D holograms, smart surfaces, next-generation wearable technologies, and “fluid mobility”…
The elaborate, highly produced video shows jaw-dropping technologies like a SCUBA mask that annotates the sea with 3D holograms, a multipart bracelet that joins together to become a communications device, and interactive, flexible displays that automatically “rehydrate” with information specific to the people using them.
This video from Microsoft was posted on YouTube, and I have shared it below…
So what do you think about all of this?
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...will be..? Surely you jest...
according to my sources they have been since the mid 90's...
The question is... do we attain a single unified machine conciousness before we destroy ourselves?
The Borg?
Resistance is futile.
"I like my species the way it is." -- Lt. Worf
I've seen this movie. It doesn't end well for the machines.
What chu talkin bout, WILL IS?
That Microsoft clip offers the most authentic view of the future by disabling votes and comments.
TV screens everywhere. I somehow doubt that people really needs huge or book-like interactive screens and walls. I wonder why M$ is trying to convince us we need that.
yeah and what about the guy that brings the coffee? Whats his take? And the guy that dumps the wigits in the water? What if he does a longshoremans strike? Its a lot of sales BS--just like the "new 1983 chrome sled" thats a must have if you want to keep up---They used to target men for sales of big ticket item--now its women-----"Transparent" joke--
"And the guy that dumps the wigits in the water? What if he does a longshoremans strike?"
He'll be being replaced by a 3D printed drone the next week.
Because women are easier targets. They feel rather than think, and if they feel they can be more social with thsoe big ticket items by being able to talk to all of the people in the world that they know through them, they will gobble them up.
Most men these days are too enmasculated to keep their women grounded in reality.
A-effing-men. Went to the shelf and dusted off the AK for this comment. The display of metrosexual faggotry in Gaymerica is unbelievable. Homey don't play dat shit.
I tell the wife that if she wants that shit, then she doesn't want me around. I have no qualms about leaving her if she starts buying into all of the BS garbage.
Let the courts try taking my wealth. I will give it all to charity and live homeless before I let anyone get close to stealing it.
Your bravado, NidStyles, leads me to guess that you don't have any children nor the foggiest notion of the family law "environment".
I'm curious what rare earth elements MS will need in such products and if they will source from conflict regions.
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
Ayn Rand
Sure, they been collecting data on everything for years. The difference is that they now have the computing power and algorithms to process it. The lens on the super telescope that actually brings it all into focus. There is still too much for them to comprehend all of it, but all they need is a reason. Something that catches their attention causing them to actually bring their gaze upon an individual. At that point there will be nothing to hide.
The real threat is not what they know about us, but what we perceive. That is the lesson of 1984, that no one knows for sure if or when they are being watched. They just know they ARE being watched, which fundamentally changes their behavior. I have always believed that the Snowden exposure was part of this. While they constantly deny their powers of observation...with a wink and a nod, we know they are watching, and they want us to know they are watching. The only reason to watch us is to catch us doing something wrong. If we THINK we are being watched...will we do ANYTHING wrong? This is about behavior control, not punishment. They are manipulating us to VOLUNTARILY behave in a manner we believe they desire. There can be no doubt what weight they can bring to bear on any of us...we know this, and while there may be a few bad children, most will fall in line.
control EVERY aspect of our lives
THEY will be watching us, but who are THEY really? No real person could possibly withstand the drudgery of watching people do mostly inane things most of the time, so it would have be some hapless android stuck with the job. He/she/it will quickly become psychotic from an overdose of Facebook posts, illiterate e-mails and Instagram selfies.
The way to have privacy is not to hide but to overwhelm the system with data.
i work as a data analyst and althought i dont work with "big data" (i hate this term) I can honestly say that in the future the sloppy use of algorithms will create false signal and people will be prosecuted for shit they didn't do and didn't plan on doing.
You can get sloppy / creative when using machine learning for marketing purposes or even trading, it just has to be right more than half the time to see an improvement in some cases.
The problem is, serving up an ad or targeting a direct mail quote is differen than flagging someone as criminal.
Many people (myself included to some extent) are using machine learning without understanding how it works or the externalities it has the potential to create.
What makes me chuckle about the "internet of things" is that we can potentially see a "flash crash" of connected devices because of an algorithm gone haywire.
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it's not the Govt. that is the problem, they are a bunch of bumbling fools....
it's the health insurance company that raises your premium when you buy a six pack...
your employer that cuts your wages because you eat too much red meat, or date too many women...
your supermarket that raises prices on select items it knows are in short supply in people's fridges...
Yeah raywolf you must be right. The benevolent government would never do us any harm. Down with businesses down with freedom! Our dear leader will save us from the evils of capitalism!
Go fuck yourself and move to venezuela.
best "bug-out" place near the lower 48 = the lower Baja
Kind of short on fresh water, but Mexican beer isn't bad.
Well, to take ray's point, Coca-Cola did a test market of a new type of Soda Vending machine that would adjust the cost of the soda up when the ambient outside temperature rose about a pre-defined set point much like dynamic toll pricing on some of the new toll roads. Needless to say they abandoned the project because of horrible sales.
That's the only reason that the power companies are forcing smart meters down our throats. It is so that they can dynamically price our power consumption to extract more money from the same infrastructure. Studies show that any power that is conserved is simply consumed by someone else.
Not to speak for Ray, but from the way I read his comment, I think Ray was trying to make the point that companies can be just as controlling and extractive of money as government. But then maybe I'm reading too much into such a small post.
Your insurance company? Your employer for fuck's sake?? Typical govt schooled dipshit. I know you are trying to make a "cool" comment and show us what you know. Well ya showed us.
Ever hear of Jack? I thought not.
Well, it isn't like CVS pharmacy doesn't sell the information about which prescriptions you are taking to your insurance company. They do. If you don't believe me then just sit down and read the text book that the print out on the back of the paper they staple to your prescription.
So I think the overall point is that if the gov't wants the information they will have to just buy it from the info vendors like everyone else. But they'll pay for it with your tax dollars.
The overall point is that one's relationship with a pharmacy or insurance company is voluntary and can be changed at will. One's relationship with government is involuntary. One can't simply cancel the subscription if one is unhappy with the services rendered.
"your supermarket that raises prices on select items it knows are in short supply in people's fridges..."
They have no right! Things that are in short supply should be put on sale so that everybody can get some.
I bet you're one of those people who thinks 'scarcity' should effect prices!
Not me. I just go by the rule, "fair is fair." Why should there be anything else to it?
Wow... We're so advanced!!!
So what happened to MH17 & WTC7 [& other things] anyway?
I'm also rooting for a new moon landing. Why can't we just pull it off in 2015?
With thousands of amateurs equipped with capable telescopes recording and broadcasting it independently or even possibly interacting with the austronauts through say the internet, wouldn't it be one huge fun event for the whole human race?
Those naysayers like to say:
"Once they finally do it, it'll be so radically different to the 60s that they now almost can't do it."
I wonder?
Permarig - Not the Moon, Mars. But I read it would not be feasible for the first few sets of Martianauts to return home. Despite that there was a long list of professional and non-professional volunteers.
I think we will evolve back into energy and travel interdimensionally meaning in the long-term a Mars colony will become a historic museum. That said, I think the excitement factor would bring mankind closer and also some potential learning make it worth doing.
There indeed is a global collective consciesness forming and of course government and big business have and will exploit it first before we see its true potential.
These are birth-pangs of our final evolution. I believe we are just mirroring what many other species in our universe and beyond have gone through and from that perspective we are still monkeys with tools but not for much longer at all.
Instant information and planning but a collective consciessness will accelerate our final evolution in decades or perhaps 200 years because of ignorance and greed that we were always reliant on one another and interconnected with existence at many levels.
Can you imagine a world where your home, your vehicles, your appliances and every single electronic device that you own is constantly connected to the Internet?
Yeah I'm already there. Telnet into my kitchen light bulb and change the luminosity
txt the kids to come down to dinner
Log on to my cam so I don't have to open the blinds...
http://oceancam1.dyndns.org/
I believe that God will see implanted chips as the Mark of the Beast.
Dream on.
The Mark of The Beast has already happened.
It is called the Internet.
Bullshit - the Internet has given you truths you couldn't possibly have documented without it. That is if you are smart enough to be USING the Internet properly. TMOTB won't be subtle or controversial - it will be blatant and in your face.
Nah, the beast is a deciever. People will voluntarily get the chip as a matter of convenience at first, then TPTB will see how convenient it is for them and make it mandatory. No buying, selling or any trade unless you got the chip.
At that point, free will is done for and you will be truely owned. No hiding in your underground bunker as you will be seen no matter where you hide.
When anonymity is outlawed, only outlaws will have anonymity. Works with 'liberty' too.
No buying, selling or any trade unless you got the chip.
TPTB are desperate to get rid of cash. AFter that, how long would it be before everyone just got their debit card implanted as a tiny RFID?
The Beast is the commercial system which is used to place a yoke around the necks of people in order to make them good complying slaves.
Internet at a Crossroads How Government Surveillance Threatens How We Communicateby Cynthia M. Wong (@cynthiamw), Senior Researcher, Internet and Human Rights
http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/essays/internet-crossroads
Incorrect.
The "Beast" (the Beast out of the Sea) is the Government, specifically, the dominant empire of each era. (Revelation chapters 13 & 17; compare Daniel 7:3-7)
"Babylon the Great" is the commercial, financial system, including fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, stocks, bonds, derivatives, credit, loans, etc. (Revelation chapters 17 & 18)
Babylon the Great is the Whore that rides on the back of the Beast, the "power behind the throne."
Buster - Google Digital Angel. They have changed there name since the 1990's. In any event like any tools which make our lives more useful and interesting such tools are often used first for conquest and slavery.
Remember though Revelations are warnings but also good news:
"I will wipe every tear from there eyes, neither mourning nor sickness or death will trouble them for the former things will pass away. The tent of God resides with man forever. These words are faithful and true."
Now here we are with medical technologies in biotech and quantum mechanics emerging where classical death really will be no more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXOwNOf2QXY
There used to be a radio show called "Dr. Demento" that played that a lot. Memories of my juvenile delinquent years. Also "Boobs A Lot" by The Fugs. Good times. Stupid times.
You can't mention The Fugs without including this timeless classic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWz75MYteX0&list=PLD48B9EB0B582DC66
I am happy with my level of technology use. All the things described above will be swallowed by the younger generations, who will be completely controlled. My question is how will billions of underemployed, underpaid, debt-laden humans AFFORD all this shit?
Easy.
They will be subsumed into the Matrix. If they have not been already.
As for you, at this late date, would you care for the red pill, or the blue?
My question is how will billions of underemployed, underpaid, debt-laden humans AFFORD all this shit?
Weren't you watching? KELP.
Obamanet of things.
Transhumanism is genocide
Nobody has the balls to say it. Look, 85% of you have to go! That’s it! Waiting, for some politician to have the balls to bring it up, but they won’t do it. We live in a democracy. You can’t be honest in a democracy! You need the votes. You can’t run with that as your platform. Coming out there: "And if I’m elected, I would implement a program to immediately eliminate at least 85% of you! This planet cannot sustain the sheer numbers... let me finish! This will not be arbitrary. Under your seats is a multiple-choice questionnaire. If you did not bring a pencil, you’re already out!"
- Bill Burr
Bill Burr is awesome.
Bill Burr is obviously an asshole, as are both of you.
PS - you will also die, so laugh it up
Asshole beats cunt anyday. Hahahahahahaha
Speaking of dystopian futures, ever seen the 2006 movie Children Of Men? 2027, no child has been born for 18 years...
Michael Caine makes you laugh... once
Cutting birthrate is just as effective and way more convenient.
BTW It is also already achieved in developed countries. Even crazy religious USA has tolerable growth. People show off charts of global population growth as if those hockey stick were going to make people keep multiplaying, just because those curves are so steep. Look at charts for European population (better yet, one corrected for migration). It was also a hockey stick, than it went flat. Even with no manmade virus to cut into homo sapiens fertility rates, we're still going to stabilize soon enough (in geological terms - in an instant).
Only if they give smart devices away for free.
Is Obozo giving away free smart phones yet?
Did the internet take Meat Hammer away?
Has he gone to join Francis et al down the ZH memory hole?
They are just building the infrastructure for the technological singularity. That's not about surveillance, not the way you think about it.
A superintelligence needs some kind of autonomic nervous system and loads of data to learn from.
"loads of data to learn from"
And what do you think the internet is if not the data gathering arm of the singularity?
Now wait up, need to post a facebook status update.
This is without a doubt the year of the sheep.
http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/02/09/microchips-implanted-under-the-skin-of-o?videoId=363136440
just sign up for VPN "Hide My Ass"...
If the government wasn't fully staffed with nothing but totally incompetent nitwits, this might be something to worry about.
Yeah, while I was watching it, I thought: just wait until .gov's enforcement arm have this technology! Think of the colossal clusterfucks it would engender!
Awesome.
dup.
Well this is another way of putting it, I call it the Attack of the Killer Algorithms and it's all about selling data for profit and I'm sick of it. Videos will give you the scoop, lot's of them from people smarter than me so book mark it and come back.
http://www.ducknet.net/attack-of-the-killer-algorithms/
They get away with it by using distraction and keeping consumers addicted to "Stat Rat Fever"...think of the song "Cat Scratch Fever" and replace the words:) Our government and others live in virtual worlds and not the the real world and live off these fake numbers. Look what the White House did with their email bot, using numbers nobody can predict..there's your virtual folks out there doing their damage.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.ca/2014/06/junk-science-appearing-everywhere-...
Data Selling business is worth $180 billion a year in the US and growing and so yes they want to keep that data selling going, but wait a minute.. crooks want in on it too and now we have repackaging and you're screwed here as you can never find the origin as we don't license legit data sellers...support me if you can on this one as I've been screaming about if for 3 years now..
http://www.youcaring.com/other/help-preserve-our-privacy-/258776
I see it clear as day where others who are too virtual or have duped too much can't see it, but it's the flat out truth.
Actually, I have to tell you that from MY experience, more and more people are DISENGAGING from tech. They're spending less time online, and doing fewer things. I noticed a sort of weariness with the whole thing.
Now of course with all the revelations of how our privacy and security is being compromised, I expect the trend to accelerate.
And I predict that the Apple watch will be a colossal flop, and will come to be seen as the "Death of The Personal Tech Boom" in years to come. The poster child for the era when people started un-connecting, and reclaiming their lives.
Apple high end watch 2 contain up to 2 oz. of gold. These will be a hit,
I refuse any and all SMART home invasion, Limit my internet to my own education, Never go to Facebook, Linkd or any other thingy. No RSS feeds, NO Twitter, twangle or sharing of any kind. Surf with TOR. Run scans every 2 days.
Call me paranoid if you like. Also I never "like" any frigging site/item. Will have nothng to do with Cloud anything. Do not own a cell phone and never will. Pay a usary charge to keep my analog hydro meter. will never buy a refrigerator that communicates it's contents and suggests menus. Will take an axe to any TV set that monitors my home conversations.
I agree. I am not disconnecting. I am just refusing. I USE this tech for my purposes, and try to build walls around my privacy. Nobody is going to do it for me are they?
666
two words that will change civlization as we know it.
autonomous cars/vehicles.
somehow people understand that flying drones have changed post ww2 superpower air dominance in the last 20 years and will continue until they nearly phase out manned pilots.
now consider that the only reason ground vehicles are so very far behind their flying peers is because it's simply far far more difficult to program an autonomous car to be useful relative to the pre-existing system of drivers it will be supplanting.
now consider ground transportation dwarfs air transport in a manner similar to bond markets dwarfing the equity markets , and you will then realize autonomous ground vehicles are a massive revolution of all of civilization. they will define the next 50-70 year leg of the industrial/inofrmation revolution more than any social networking site or search advertising business models .
entire nations will be conquered or revolutionize themselves simply based on autonomous ground vehicles.
Utter nonsense. Individual means of transport are perhaps a major in-thing in Alabama, but not in the rest of the civilized world. Urban population is growing rapidly and traffic in mega cities has already come to a stillstand - have you ever tried to get by car somewhere in Tokyo, Mexico City, Shanghai, Delhi, Jakarta, Mumbai, London, Manila, Lagos, Los Angeles? These is where a growing number of people live and there is simply no space left for every dick to drive his own car.
That video is a pretty delusionial crap again. Typical western inefficiency shines through.
Where are the slaves who mined the stuff for those magical trinkets and are feeding and clothing those pretty people watching numbers on the screen and micromanaging things constantly (now using even moar gadgets) to maintain the illusion of their superiority in their slaves' minds?
No wonder they're going after Russia so rabidly. They need the resources and new suckers to leech on to keep the grand vision going.
But we can all see with Ukraine what kind of fundation it's built on.
They only want you to see the Eloi; viewing the Morlocks ist verboten.
Very good.
Come on. Get over it.
If words mean nothing, then why read this site? Or read at all?
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Shootout
Execution Gunfight
Trafficking
Kidnap
Calderon
Reyosa
Bust
Tamaulipas
Meth Lab
Drug trade
Illegal immigrants
Smuggling (smugglers)
Matamoros
Michoacana
Guzman
Arellano-Felix
Beltran-Leyva
Barrio Azteca
Artistic Assassins
Mexicles
New Federation Terrorism
Al Qaeda (all spellings)
Terror
Attack
Iraq
Afghanistan
Iran
Pakistan
Agro
Environmental terrorist
Eco terrorism
Conventional weapon
Target
Weapons grade
Dirty bomb
Enriched
Nuclear
Chemical weapon
Biological weapon
Ammonium nitrate
Improvised explosive device IED (Improvised Explosive
Device)
Abu Sayyaf
Hamas
FARC (Armed Revolutionary
Forces Colombia)
IRA (Irish Republican Army)
ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
Basque Separatists
Hezbollah
Tamil Tigers
PLF (Palestine Liberation
Front)
PLO (Palestine Liberation
Organization
Car bomb
Jihad
Taliban
Weapons cache
Suicide bomber
Suicide attack Suspicious substance
AQAP (AL Qaeda Arabian
Peninsula)
AQIM (Al Qaeda in the
Islamic Maghreb)
TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan)
Yemen
Pirates
Extremism
Somalia
Nigeria
Radicals
Al-Shabaab
Home grown
Plot
Nationalist
Recruitment
Fundamentalism
Islamist Emergency
Hurricane
Tornado
Twister
Tsunami
Earthquake
Tremor
Flood
Storm
Crest
Temblor
Extreme weather
Forest fire
Brush fire Ice
Stranded/Stuck
Help
Hail
Wildfire
Tsunami Warning Center
Magnitude
Avalanche
Typhoon
Shelter-in-place
Disaster
Snow
Blizzard
Sleet Mud slide or Mudslide
Erosion
Power outage
Brown out
Warning
Watch
Lightening
Aid
Relief
Closure
Interstate
Burst
Emergency Broadcast System Cyber security
Botnet
DDOS (dedicated denial of
service)
Denial of service
Malware
Virus
Trojan
Keylogger
Cyber Command 2600
Spammer
Phishing
Rootkit
Phreaking
Cain and abel
Brute forcing
Mysql injection
Cyber attack
Cyber terror Hacker
China
Conficker
Worm
Scammers
Social media
Put this list in the subject line of every email one sends.
Wonderful. now can we condense this into an acronym? My fingers get tired typing and then I make mistakes and somebody objects to my spelllling and grammmer.
Wow, you've had a busy day
This guy's a little behind the times. Hasn't he read Aldous Huxley, George Orwell or Albert Camus? Hello?
'Murica is #1. They hate us for our free-dums. Just remember that.
"Good scuba diving, Dave. At current and expected rate of use you have twenty minutes of oxygen for use to explore before beginning your ascent."
"Kelps are large seaweeds (algae) belonging to the brown algae (Phaeophyceae) in the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genera. The one you are currently handling is Lepus californicus, or Jack Rabbit Weed."
"The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) which is swimming toward you, also known as the great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a species of large lamniform shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans."
"The average amount of blood in the human body is 5 liters. Dave, your blood volume at the begniing of this dive was 5.28 liters. You are currently losing blood at the rate of .54 liters per minute, primarily through 8 of the 12 separate incisions made by the shark's teeth. At which rate a human if your weight, gender, and age will lose consciousness, on average in three minutes or less."
"Dave? Dave? Hello, Dave? Can you hear me Dave?"
That's pretty funny.
Being the cautious person I am, I would opt for diamond nanothread body armor, synthetic blood with an hour of oxygen supply and a nanobot clotting system, along with an automated stun protection system.
Imagine a world completely connected through technology then you wanted to shut one individual or group out simply because the believe or act in a way that is contrary to your point of view. Take global warming, for example. Search for those who have posted articles questioning the validity of it. Now raise the temperature of their air conditioned home. Turn up the heat in their internet connected car. Begin to make their lives uncomfortable until they change. If that doesn't work, continue to apply pressure in other areas of their lives.
The more you are connected the easier it becomes to apply the pressure.
All too soon you will get to a point where places will only accept payments via card because the only form of currency is digital. No dollar, yen, ruble or pound. Currency exchange will be via 1s and 0s. A global economic reset would bring that about quickly. Just beware of the abuses which will come.
That's why some of us are calling for the "indie" aka independent Internet of Things, where all the devices you supposedly own don't spy on behalf of somebody else, but where your data stays under your own control.
Maybe the CIA are reading this. I don't care. In the end they'll kill me anyway.
DEATH TO THE BANKSTERS! TO THEM AN ETERNITY IN HELL WITH JUDAS ISCARIOT THEIR FATHER!
DEATH TO THEIR FLUNKIES IN HIGH PLACES! MAY THEY BURN AS AGONIZINGLY AS THEIR MASTERS!
GLORY TO RUSSIA AND HER PEOPLE! MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP HER AND HER BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN FOREVER, EVERY ONE!
GLORY TO THEIR LEADER, BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE WILL OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, AND OF NO OTHER IN THIS WORLD, THE WORLD ABOVE OR THE WORLD BELOW, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTIN!
Just more stuff to wreck.
I don't care about Internet of things I don't need Internet connected divices to make my life more simple and easy all I need is a cellphone (Cyanogen, OxygenOS) to make calls. Period.
Everything will be monitored including your sewage and probably even your trash.
One of the best ways to hedge against the BORG is to omit the technology & not embrace it. Just say no. The technology corporations are trying to drive & steer the train for their benefit of control / dependence & profits. Just turn it off & get back to basics will slow it down & help mitgate the BORG's velocity. Simplify, simplify, simplify... Thoreau..
This is going to be a very hard task to archive most of the world population is sheep.
If you own a smart phone/cel phone with a SIM card or one of those new credit cards with the embedded microchip, you have already been "chipped".
Someone needs to write some software that mimics all of these new internet devices. That way if you really wanted privacy you could fire up this software on a local machine , plug it into the Internet and it would mimic all of the connected lightbulbs, home automation, thermostat settings, home automation devices, and everything else. Make it look like your house but only in software. None of it would really exist but if the gov't or any hacker "broke in" and went looking at your NAT'd network IP address space they would find what they expected to see.
Your whole house on the other hand would be completely analog with nothing at all on the Internet. Building and deploying something like that now will help you hide in the future when you try to "get off the grid" and don't want to be noticed as the odd man out.
I like it; and if you rigged up the 'privacy machine' to the internet, you could control it remotely!
*slaps self on forehead*
Everything will eventually tend to revert to the mean of Weimar and then Nazi Germany. Jude or Six hundred sixty and six. Can't buy or sell-- book of Revelation. As with the borrower, so with the lender-- isaiah 24.
Control or controlled; their freedom or you're controlled; Frankenstein creates a monster; fire tamed or amok; the ying and yang of innovation.
Whose good vs whose evil is the oft unexpected consequence. The great error of mankind is to trust its leaders, its innovators or its psychopaths.
Brave new worlds need thinking, not emotion for or against.
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In the future, it will be illegal NOT to be connected.
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Then I'm in deep shit because I don't have, nor ever will, own a cellphone.
It is sick. Millions Americans worry about food, shelter and how to pay gas and electric bill and they are daydreaming.
I am trying to be balanced and judicious in my opinion and make sure not to exaggerate even a bit. Here we go.
Those bastards from Silicon Valley are paranoid delusional animals defecating on their paper billions and body paint naked with their shit.
Those gluttonous inbred degenerates, super retards incapable of excreting coherent utterances about last year snow without soiling themselves, even unable or unwilling to wipe their rosebud asses without assistance from fifth fleet.
When their sorry asses are shocked by iPhone, run over by iCar, shut with iGun, finished with iRumba and pissed on by iDog, iShit will begin oozing from their iHeads. That will be a day to celebrate. They are danger to themselves and society and must be stopped.
One of these days I will really tell them what I think.No niceties like today.
More on those lunatics at:
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/smell-of-silicon-madness/
Privacy emerged with cities. In a community large enough it's just not possible to keep track of who's doing who, or what does one think about local shaman. Primitive settlements before cities didn't even have enough of physical space for this kind of separation - with a bunch of wooden houses crammed super tight into a defensive wall.
Now tech is going to obliterate this privacy. IMO this is unavoidable. It's only a matter of how we're going to adapt. First of all it'd be best to use this extensively against the rulers. Get total information on them. Than it'd be the time to change law. Right now there's a ton of oppressive and harmful law that is only kept at bay by lacking information for enforcment. It has to go. Same for fighting government capacity for oppression of individuals - interfering with govt search for a victim is a stop gap measure - time to cut this capacity at the root. It's not that govt should have prohibitive costs of finding dissenters, it is that is should be unable to persecute them at all - found or hidden (prohivitive consequences, with near 100% report rate). Last thing would be a cultural shift. Right now skeletons are kept under tight lid in a lot of closets. After privacy braking down there'd be much more proportionality in responding to those skeletons. Now we've got a scandal if there's proof of some politician being a regular john of numerous hookers. If it's known that most of them have fetishes, strange sexual behaviors, laughable personal quirks etc - this stuff is no longer newsworthy. It would boil down to the acts which are immoral. It would no longer be career breaking to get your sex tape out, everybody would have a sex tape out - but if it was a sex tape with a 11 year old, you'd be very promptly caught, judged and punished.
It’s not just the government that will be using the internet to monitor and control you. The big social networks like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are already collecting and assimilating massive amounts of data on their users. Behind the curtain they are spending big bucks on research to establish methodologies for profiling you, your identity, and your behavior so they can sell that information to the highest bidder. They operate with impunity, and slowly but surely they will use their immense corporate power to institutionalize their methodology in society, just like the banks have done with FICO scores. One day you won’t be able to get a job unless you post your resume on Facebook on their terms or comment on a blog unless your “Like-Ratio” is greater than 75%. The government, their business clients, and investors will all defend their actions too, because, “what the hell, there’s too much tax revenue, investment, and profits at stake to try and undo it now.” It’s more about social engineering than social networking. Mostly its about them establishing power to control others for profit.
Even worse (perhaps), these corporations aren’t bothered by the fact they have an impossible task to do well or fairly. It doesn’t really matter to them how perfunctory, rudimentary, callous, or insensitive their practices might be. They could care less that their measures, ratings, and profiles of us are shallow, narrow, incomplete, outdated, and sometimes even downright wrong depictions of our true selves. Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technology doesn’t need to be intelligent or smart to be effective at controlling us. It just needs to be ordained by fiat. And succumb to it you will, or you will not even be able to function in society.