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Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone

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On 2014-03-29, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I doubt my ancient flip phone, which is kept in the glove box of my car 
> and turned off, is spying on me.
>
> Anyway Shadow, you point out the reason that the spying will continue.  
> Most people accept that it's for their own good, and even if it isn't 
> that it's inevitable.  It's loser talk.
>

I'm not sure I'd characterize it as loser talk or defeatism.  Just: at
present, the average consumer finds the convenience or utility of
carrying a pocket spy device - er, a smartphone - outweighs the risk of
it spying, tracking, and recording him.  That's sort of my case too.
But even before smartphones even dumb phones allow authorities one more
way to 'get you.'  The East Germans used to keep typewriter samples from
different typewriters and could occasionally use it to identify from
which typewriter a certain document came from.  Point is just: this
trend goes way back.

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US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-28 08:50 +0000
  Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-28 09:30 +0000
    Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-28 11:28 +0000
      Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-28 15:14 +0000
        Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-28 16:18 +0000
          Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-29 10:36 +0000
  Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-28 13:03 -0300
  Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-28 18:50 -0700
    Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-29 10:37 +0000
      Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-29 16:44 -0300
        Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-29 16:41 -0700
          Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-30 10:57 +0000
            Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-30 21:18 +0000
            Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-03-30 22:40 +0000
              Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 08:38 +0000
              Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-31 09:54 +0000
          Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-30 14:13 +0000
            Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-31 01:33 -0300
          Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-31 16:20 +0000
            Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 19:54 +0000

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