[DrCaleb]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I wish him luck!

I spent many hours removing spyware and hijackware from PCs. I've know people who have had their identities stolen. It's never fun to have to deal with a customer who just lost their doctoral thesis and years of research on a PC that was physically destroyed by a virus.

It's not 'paranoia' if it's documented as happening, and ongoing. His trolls are weak.

You guys are always good for a chuckle.

In case you forgot, my education is in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering.

I've never said anything with respect to not supporting strong passwords, virus control, spyware, adware, network protection, etc.

With basic protection, often free, 99.99% of these problems won't happen.

I can't forget something I never knew. And 'free' is worth what you pay for it. The tools work, but not against a real attack. Only against scripted attacks and known vulnerabilities.

My education is in Computer Engineering. So what? I use virtually none of my education in this job, technology has changed too much since then. Do you do network security for a living? No. So how can you pretend to know about the things I deal with every day, claim that I'm making them up, and be seen as anything other than a troll?

Your little home PC is nothing near a target as the hundreds of servers and thousands of PCs that the Treasury Department of an affluent western nation is. Put your free tools and commercial PC up against the efforts of pretty much ever government on the planet, and all you'll be left with a virtual smoking crater.

But go ahead, call me paranoid! You know, because nothing like that happens outside of my own mind. And I imagine Bart's job is as bad, if not worse!

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

I laugh at the likes of DrCaleb because of the paranoia. The whole going off-the-grid type mentality is just funny and lying about the cell phone thing to make a point.

Coke machines kill people every year, but I don't worry every time I walk beside one.

I've never espoused an 'off the grid' mentality. I always go with 'be careful out there' and 'know what you are getting into'. And how can I lie about something you already knew about? Blatant troll attempt right there!

Please continue with the irrelevant pictures now.

[Xort]

So Windows Defender now removes Superfish.

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-up ... that-it-is

[herbie]

Even when it's blinking and flashing and trying to get your attention that it hasn't been run or updated for 3,456 days?
...worked on one last week running Norton 2005. They've been clicking that 'Your subscription has expired' out of the way for nine fucking years...

[OnTheIce]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

My education is in Computer Engineering. So what? I use virtually none of my education in this job, technology has changed too much since then. Do you do network security for a living? No. So how can you pretend to know about the things I deal with every day, claim that I'm making them up, and be seen as anything other than a troll?

I have no doubt that corporate security is far more vulnerable than the average home user but often, your paranoia goes back to the everyday home user on their cell phone or Google account.

Being afraid of people tracking you, as a generic home user, is paranoid.

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I've never espoused an 'off the grid' mentality. I always go with 'be careful out there' and 'know what you are getting into'. And how can I lie about something you already knew about? Blatant troll attempt right there!

Sure you do...you sound like a modern-day version of Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory. How would I remember about your cell phone? I have a life outside of the forums and my office. Maybe you should try that?

I don't remember conversations from years ago on an Internet forum. And even if I did, it doesn't discount the fact that you lied about it. Calling that out, it's trolling.

[DrCaleb]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

My education is in Computer Engineering. So what? I use virtually none of my education in this job, technology has changed too much since then. Do you do network security for a living? No. So how can you pretend to know about the things I deal with every day, claim that I'm making them up, and be seen as anything other than a troll?

I have no doubt that corporate security is far more vulnerable than the average home user but often, your paranoia goes back to the everyday home user on their cell phone or Google account.

Being afraid of people tracking you, as a generic home user, is paranoid.

It's not paranoia if it's ongoing and current.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/cons ... 3mecc.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/ ... 1H20150220

http://www.networkworld.com/article/288 ... tk.rss_all

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2885163/ ... dband.html

And hundreds more . . . identity theft of a corporation is not possible. For a home user, it's far more likely.

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I've never espoused an 'off the grid' mentality. I always go with 'be careful out there' and 'know what you are getting into'. And how can I lie about something you already knew about? Blatant troll attempt right there!

Sure you do...you sound like a modern-day version of Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory. How would I remember about your cell phone? I have a life outside of the forums and my office. Maybe you should try that?

I don't remember conversations from years ago on an Internet forum. And even if I did, it doesn't discount the fact that you lied about it. Calling that out, it's trolling.

But I do recall such conversations, it has nothing to do with having a life or not. Not my problem that you have a poor memory.

[OnTheIce]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

It's not paranoia if it's ongoing and current.

And hundreds more . . . identity theft of a corporation is not possible. For a home user, it's far more likely.

Hundreds more?

Considering the amount of people on the Internet and the enormous amount of data being pushed around the World on a day to day basis, it's nothing but noteworthy for media to drive some hype from it.

With close to 3 billion Internet users, a couple examples just doesn't cut it for something that I should be worried about.

A little perspective.

450 people a year die from falling out of bed in the US alone, yet I don't surround mine with pillows.

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

But I do recall such conversations, it has nothing to do with having a life or not. Not my problem that you have a poor memory.

And yet, you forgot that you told me you had a phone.

I don't tend to retain meaningless conversations with anonymous people on the Internet. If you do, congratulations.

[Tyler_1]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

And yet, you forgot that you told me you had a phone.

I don't tend to retain meaningless conversations with anonymous people on the Internet. If you do, congratulations.

I see what you did there.
Oooops.
Anyway nevermind you don't know me.

[DrCaleb]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

It's not paranoia if it's ongoing and current.

And hundreds more . . . identity theft of a corporation is not possible. For a home user, it's far more likely.

Hundreds more?

Considering the amount of people on the Internet and the enormous amount of data being pushed around the World on a day to day basis, it's nothing but noteworthy for media to drive some hype from it.

With close to 3 billion Internet users, a couple examples just doesn't cut it for something that I should be worried about.

A little perspective.

450 people a year die from falling out of bed in the US alone, yet I don't surround mine with pillows.

Yes, hundreds of examples like that, every day. If people were falling out of bed and dying every 2 seconds, do you think there would be a uproar on how beds were being made too high?

$1:

Someone Became an Identity Theft Victim Every 2 Seconds Last Year

http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-fin ... last-year/

If you are one of the fortunate people that doesn't get phone calls on how you just won 'thousands of reward miles', then For the rest of us, we have to actively work on protecting our identity.

I remember that Mel Gibson movie. Wasn't it the one where he thought he was being followed by the CIA, and it turns out he actually was?

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I remember that Mel Gibson movie. Wasn't it the one where he thought he was being followed by the CIA, and it turns out he actually was?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I remember that Mel Gibson movie. Wasn't it the one where he thought he was being followed by the CIA, and it turns out he actually was?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/

'Zactly. And Snowden already taught us the CIA (NSA, GCHQ, CSEC . . .) already has all the information about us that it wants. It's all the other players who are starting to see identity theft as a business model that I hope to bring to everyone's attention.

[Jabberwalker]

They've got so much information that they can't analyze but a tiny fraction of it. We'd need a system like that of the GDR with half the population spying on the other half to make use of the torrent of data about ourselves.

... an infinite number of Hillbillies in an infinite number of catacombs working below grade in Virginia ...

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

They've got so much information that they can't analyze but a tiny fraction of it. We'd need a system like that of the GDR with half the population spying on the other half to make use of the torrent of data about ourselves.

... an infinite number of Hillbillies in an infinite number of catacombs working below grade in Virginia ...

What they do is they capture everything on everyone and then if you do something to warrant scrutiny then (in theory) they get a warrant from a secret intelligence court to look at the information they already have and then they build a dossier on you.

Or they release your confidential tax information and secret video of you to the media like they did with Mitt Romney in the 2012 elections.