Lets get to know the Retirees

Tony M. said:
Ray has a good point.
No good reason for a bunch of people who all have expensive guitars in our homes
to be putting all that information in one place. The site may be run by a burglary ring.
Hey, you never know.

I have actually gotten phone calls like this one.

"Hello"
"Good afternoon. I'm from Acme lifestyles.
We're taking a survey to determine the average
amount a family spends on home electronics.
Do you own any of the following:

o_O
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I like to accept those calls, then I answer "I don't know" to every question until they give up. Five minutes pointless entertainment for me, five minutes less harassment for someone else.
 
The less the world knows about you the better off you will be. I did the google thing and they think I am a dentist in the metro Chicago area. I can live with that and even be a Cubs fan and say stupid stuff like da bears. Look at your life line, according mine I'm all ready dead.
 
They can always do an automatic search on your IP address and it should reveal your location within a few hundred yards. Somehow my ISP places me in Crediton, 200 miles from my home in London. Thank you Plusnet, that is as close as I ever want you to locate me.
 
Tony M. said:
Ray has a good point.
No good reason for a bunch of people who all have expensive guitars in our homes
to be putting all that information in one place. The site may be run by a burglary ring.
Hey, you never know.

I have actually gotten phone calls like this one.

"Hello"
"Good afternoon. I'm from Acme lifestyles.
We're taking a survey to determine the average
amount a family spends on home electronics.
Do you own any of the following:

o_O
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True! I have had people come to inquire as to my current home security set up in the guise of selling me product.
I could tell by their lack of proper uniform and knowledge they were scamming for a burglary.

During the short conversation I mentioned that Smith & Wesson were my constant companions....
 
I have no basis for this and a touch of paranoia comes with age and watching the OJ Trial but weird phone calls got me thinking. Every thing we do on the internet has a telephone involved with a very few exceptions. These calls were it seems like a simple hang up or wrong number calls with no voice and pretty much complete silence. Could these calls be information gathering beyond a simple check to see if anyone is home. I do no banking on line but my credit card numbers are out there and how much of that can be be stolen by stealing a phone line history. I know from my time working with the courts they can find out a lot from a persons use of a phone line. Cell phone history too. Just a thought from a weird old man.
 
DonP said:
Why is the word "retirees"? If I'm the one doing the retiring, I'm a retirer.
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Interesting point. In the UK you use the term, “pensioner,” right?

We don’t use that over here.

Maybe the word, “retiree” is used because the company feels it is retiring you!
 
smitty_p said:
you use the term, “pensioner,” right?
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In Aust we usually refer to pensioners as those on a government supplied aged pension or disability pension, it's a fixed rate regardless of your past working history. Those retired with accumulated superannuation normally set up a pension from their super (technically they are pensioners) we call them "self funded retirees".
There is also a cross over group, those who qualify for a reduced government pension because their superannuation is lower than a certain point. We usually say they are on a "part pension".
 
DonP said:
They can always do an automatic search on your IP address and it should reveal your location within a few hundred yards. Somehow my ISP places me in Crediton, 200 miles from my home in London. Thank you Plusnet, that is as close as I ever want you to locate me.
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One of my chums is a conspiracy theorist. He's terrified of big brother. One day, just to play with him, I emailed a government agency (while he was here) and invited them to check out my computer. He almost flipped out.

A few minutes later, I get a reply "Dear Mr. Herndon. Thank you for contacting us. We have no interest in the contents of your computer."

I thought he was going to die.
 
Robert Herndon said:
One of my chums is a conspiracy theorist. He's terrified of big brother. One day, just to play with him, I emailed a government agency (while he was here) and invited them to check out my computer. He almost flipped out.

A few minutes later, I get a reply "Dear Mr. Herndon. Thank you for contacting us. We have no interest in the contents of your computer."

I thought he was going to die.
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The SSID for the hot spot on my iPhone is

FBI surveillance van 4

I don’t think I get too many hackers.
 
Don O said:
The SSID for the hot spot on my iPhone is

FBI surveillance van 4

I don’t think I get too many hackers.
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That is the exact thing that would draw a hackers attention.


Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering".. Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of a hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have modeled him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike... I'm a junior in high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms.Smith, I didn't show my work, I did it in my head... "Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike... I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake it's because I screwed up. Not because it doesn't like me...Or it feels threatened by me... Or it thinks I'm a smart ass... Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play video games. They're all alike.. And then it happened...a door opened to a world...rushing through the phone like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetence is sought...a board is found. "This is it...this is where I belong... "I know everyone here...even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... You bet your ass we're all alike...we've been spoon fed baby food at school when hungered for steak...the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach us found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in a desert. This is our world now...the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of service already existing without for what could be dirt cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore...and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge...and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, you cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all...after all, we're all alike.

+++The Mentor+++
 
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