This is an actual news story and not a bunch of crap. If you take pics with your cell please take the time to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/v/N2vARzvWxwY#at=208
Sounds like an easy fix though, people need to wise up if they are going to play on line.
That's for sure.
What a load of crap! I'll leave it to you to find out why.
Quote from: Bo D on August 13, 2013, 08:29:22 AM
What a load of crap! I'll leave it to you to find out why.
Why, because I posted it?
Well, I'm waiting on an answer Bo D. Why is that post a bunch of crap? Do you think that isn't possible?
Quote from: me on August 14, 2013, 01:41:51 PM
Well, I'm waiting on an answer Bo D. Why is that post a bunch of crap? Do you think that isn't possible?
The only risk is to idiots. Figure it out.
Quote from: Bo D on August 14, 2013, 02:19:08 PM
The only risk is to idiots. Figure it out.
What????? All I see is a good tip for those who have no clue that so much info can be transmitted via a Smartphone. There are a lot of people who get those and can barely do anything but take pictures let alone know about the settings on them. I don't own one and have no intentions of getting one but I know people who do have them and take pictures constantly. Most people wouldn't even think about something like that happening by taking a seemingly innocent picture.
Quote from: me on August 14, 2013, 04:01:47 PM
What????? All I see is a good tip for those who have no clue that so much info can be transmitted via a Smartphone. There are a lot of people who get those and can barely do anything but take pictures let alone know about the settings on them. I don't own one and have no intentions of getting one but I know people who do have them and take pictures constantly. Most people wouldn't even think about something like that happening by taking a seemingly innocent picture.
Those same innocent people that open every damn viral email that comes in and swear that it's true because it was on the internets?
Quote from: Bo D on August 14, 2013, 04:46:08 PM
Those same innocent people that open every damn viral email that comes in and swear that it's true because it was on the internets?
Oh, so you're insinuating that everyone with half a brain knows a simple picture can transmit all that data? There are people who know not to click certain links in emails or on FB but have no clue about the picture on Iphone thing. That is a totally different thing and has nothing to do with all the information out there about viruses and such. The average computer user would not necessarily know this. Some people who have the phones don't even have a computer at home but they can take a picture and transmit it to someone else and they wouldn't have a clue. What all this boils down to is you are calling me stupid for posting this any way you look at it.
Quote from: me on August 14, 2013, 05:17:49 PM
Oh, so you're insinuating that everyone with half a brain knows a simple picture can transmit all that data? There are people who know not to click certain links in emails or on FB but have no clue about the picture on Iphone thing. That is a totally different thing and has nothing to do with all the information out there about viruses and such. The average computer user would not necessarily know this. Some people who have the phones don't even have a computer at home but they can take a picture and transmit it to someone else and they wouldn't have a clue. What all this boils down to is you are calling me stupid for posting this any way you look at it.
Stupid is as stupid does ....
If the didn't know before, they know now. The news story/video has gone viral. That said, even the "not so innocent" people now know how to track people.
Quote from: Bo D on August 14, 2013, 08:58:06 PM
Stupid is as stupid does ....
So things like that shouldn't be passed around to let people know.....How generous of you Bo D. I do hope you're not trying to say I'm wrong for passing the information on.
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on August 14, 2013, 10:07:19 PM
If the didn't know before, they know now. The news story/video has gone viral. That said, even the "not so innocent" people now know how to track people.
And the people that see that will know how to head it off at the pass.
Quote from: me on August 14, 2013, 10:13:50 PM
.....How generous of you Bo D.
Hey! What can I say? I guess I enjoy helping point out people who are too f'in stupid to pay attention to all the warnings on the phone screen about location tracking when you set it up.
Some people shouldn't be allowed to use electronic devices.
Quote from: Bo D on August 15, 2013, 09:40:49 AM
Hey! What can I say? I guess I enjoy helping point out people who are too f'in stupid to pay attention to all the warnings on the phone screen about location tracking when you set it up.
Some people shouldn't be allowed to use electronic devices.
Does it specifically say you can be tracked by taking and transmitting pictures?
Quote from: me on August 15, 2013, 10:11:29 AM
Does it specifically say you can be tracked by taking and transmitting pictures?
Absolutely! Yes! Mine does. Mine also warns me when I check traffic and weather or use the GPS. Every app that I have installed that uses tracking warns me about it.
Quote from: Bo D on August 15, 2013, 10:22:10 AM
Absolutely! Yes! Mine does. Mine also warns me when I check traffic and weather or use the GPS. Every app that I have installed that uses tracking warns me about it.
Wonder if some of the older ones don't since they thought it important enough to do a newscast on. I don't own one and won't so I have no idea how they are set up. I have a cell but only use it for emergencies, I don't even know the number. I've go so many minutes stacked up on my tracphone acct from renewing once a year I could use it every day all day for a month and never use all that minutes. They are handy if your home phone goes out due to weather related issues or you're stuck out on the highway with car trouble though. I think the only time I used my cell lately was to call AAA when the fuel pump went out and to see if mom needed anything last winter on one of our grocery runs. I hate talkin' on the phone so I'll be darned if I'll carry one with me constantly even to have access to the internet. As far as GPS goes, I've been without that all these years and rarely got lost so I can get along without it now. I neither track or get tracked that way. :biggrin: