You want be so keen when they tie you down and harvest your body parts whilst you're still alive.YaTingPom wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:05 pmThere’s been this anti Chinese rhetoric since at least the 70s (“Chinky shit”, which we all wanted and bought) and it’s just grown. For most expats (not so much the backpackers) it’s engrained in their psyche and has just be exacerbated because of SIhanoukville.
“Clean data” has always been big business - address, phone numbers, job description, kids, car type, salary etc.
I worked for a company who’s sole job was to call people up to confirm their details. Labour intensive but the money they made was crazy.
Nowadays they collect more details and it’s more precise.
It’s all money.
(Incidentally, the UKs cities have more CCTV than many other countries, including China - London and weirdly Bristol as examples.)
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It's called Surveillance Capitalism. I don't care because I don't have a smartphone or use social media like facebook or twitter etc.
The west will realize too late how dangerous the chi-coms really are and it's good that the God Emperor AKA Trump is poking the bear.
The west will realize too late how dangerous the chi-coms really are and it's good that the God Emperor AKA Trump is poking the bear.
You’re on social media you twit. (Unless you use Tor and a VPN then “they know”)Hot_Pink_Urinal_Mint wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:16 pmIt's called Surveillance Capitalism. I don't care because I don't have a smartphone or use social media like facebook or twitter etc.
The west will realize too late how dangerous the chi-coms really are and it's good that the God Emperor AKA Trump is poking the bear.
But you have a bank account, chipped passport, email, mobile phone (registered in your name, in any country), social security account, tax details etc etc.
You’re kidding yourself if you think you can’t be tracked. Not even in Cambodia.
But then why would they be interested in you?
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^^ YantingPONG, I never said I didn't think I was being tracked, I was implying that my digital footprint was fairly low.
I don't consider forums like this one in the same surveillance league as the ones I mentioned in my OP. Although there is that rumour that MIggles is a NOC.
I don't consider forums like this one in the same surveillance league as the ones I mentioned in my OP. Although there is that rumour that MIggles is a NOC.
Why is it always the biggest nutjobs who believe they are important enough to be under surveillance?
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Maybe it is the only way that they can find to add any relevance to their meaningless existence ?
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Being 'under surveillance' is an antiquated term these days.
I met a Canadian guy called Jay in SHV and he was convinced “they’ were after him. He used encrypted email and used to change his phone and number every six months. He said he’d never use a smart phone as “they” are always listening to him. He also kept all his “assets” overseas. Used to mention WikiLeaks and was obsessed with that nutjob Alex Jones and Infowars.com.Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:08 pmWhy is it always the biggest nutjobs who believe they are important enough to be under surveillance?
Worked online teaching Chinese students, and of course said he used an intractable media to do one-on-one and had software so his camera couldn’t be hacked.
I asked him why they would be interested in him and he said they watch and listen to everyone. (So that would mean some of the listeners were being listened to?)
Bit of a nutter and got very angry if you questioned him.
Anyhoo. He died in PP (or Kep?) a few months ago. Heart attack... (True story. Not making a joke)
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Oh and not forgetting dear old American “three bottles of wine” Tom who was equally if not more so vehemently against any government and actually got an infowars sticker put up at Charlie Harpers, Tony liked to please.
He’d get so angry if you questioned him to the point one eye would start twitching and he’d be frothing!
So he also died...but that was because he was 70 something and drank minimum two bottles of wine every day. Without fail. And that was at the bar.
He’d also had many falls both at home and out. RIP Tom! (He also hated Chinese and used to go into a tirade at Queenco “Fucking Chinese cunts. Fuck em” which was ok but we were surrounded by them!)
Oh and there’s also English Mark who’s the same. Sadly he’s not dead though.
He’d get so angry if you questioned him to the point one eye would start twitching and he’d be frothing!
So he also died...but that was because he was 70 something and drank minimum two bottles of wine every day. Without fail. And that was at the bar.
He’d also had many falls both at home and out. RIP Tom! (He also hated Chinese and used to go into a tirade at Queenco “Fucking Chinese cunts. Fuck em” which was ok but we were surrounded by them!)
Oh and there’s also English Mark who’s the same. Sadly he’s not dead though.
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Have you also noticed that the same people tend to believe the whole swathe of similar crank theories? Most of them will be anti-vaccers, moonlanding was a hoax, flat-earther freaks too. Oh and let’s not forget - the kids killed at Sandy Hook were actors.
Scobienz Spicer. fuk you are intense on the politics man., like you are really upset.
Chilll mate.
Don't vote.
You took care of me, took me under your wing also Joon. I am the uneducated fool from NZ.
I owe both of you . I will never forget.
Massive Respect . Thank You.
I mean that.
Chilll mate.
Don't vote.
You took care of me, took me under your wing also Joon. I am the uneducated fool from NZ.
I owe both of you . I will never forget.
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Some people believe that all the good folks are admitted through the gates of heaven by St. Peter and then join a choir to sing gospel music while wearing a white robe. So what.
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People can be under surveillance for a long time by cyber criminals. It helps with social engineering. An individual being watched may or may not be the end target.Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:08 pmWhy is it always the biggest nutjobs who believe they are important enough to be under surveillance?
How easy is social engineering? Really easy. We are manipulated by our desires to be helpful, to do the right thing, to feel like we are participating in something important, through guilt, fears and anxieties, through ego, attention seeking and greed. Even your opinion that you are not important enough to be a target, and that anyone thinking they are is paranoid or a nutter, can help in social engineering. Social engineering is a very successful practice of cyber criminals. Surveillance, with or without social engineering is a successful practice. You are a target because you are one step toward the end goal of a cyber criminal .... data, identity, MONEY (And sometimes just the sheer challenge and fun of it. And sometimes because it is too easy.)
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And in a country where, I have only just learned- if the posts can be believed- telecom companies have been monitoring all telephone conversations for years and years, why would you not think you are under surveillance?
Also, interestingly, I was watching a 60 Minutes episode where an ex Naval security guy was commenting on how the Chinese have and do instruct recipients of funds to closely monitor who enters their country and what they do. Monitor .... surveillance. Same same.
In 2019 you are the equivalent of your 90 year old grandfather when you were 14 if you think you aren’t important enough to be under surveillance for something.
In the age of AI, a person doesn’t need to be actively monitored by a person either. Ranks of importance may determine when continual human surveillance is engaged rather than technical surveillance that only kicks off into something more when particular patterns are triggered
Also, interestingly, I was watching a 60 Minutes episode where an ex Naval security guy was commenting on how the Chinese have and do instruct recipients of funds to closely monitor who enters their country and what they do. Monitor .... surveillance. Same same.
In 2019 you are the equivalent of your 90 year old grandfather when you were 14 if you think you aren’t important enough to be under surveillance for something.
In the age of AI, a person doesn’t need to be actively monitored by a person either. Ranks of importance may determine when continual human surveillance is engaged rather than technical surveillance that only kicks off into something more when particular patterns are triggered
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