Tuesday, February 26, 2019 1:53:50 AM
In part 1, I confirmed Flipper and Biosect’s experience regarding the Optune ad’s appearance, and provided some plausible explanations, which others have confirmed (sometimes derisively, because it is obvious that this is typical user behavior tracking. I agree it is typical, so I’m not sure where the derision comes from).
Perhaps it was my lack of transition/setup to the Joe Rogan story that caused you/others to think I was promulgating some kind of “conspiracy theory.” I wasn’t offering Joe’s story as an explanation of the targeted optune ads appearing, since I don’t think Flipper, Biosect, CaptainOblivious, me, etc., were all reading Flipper’s Optune posts out loud into our device microphones. Though I suppose the camera could have been reading my lips as I read, lol.
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I thought Joe’s story was interesting to share in the general context of web tracking, so I shared it.
That’s what *he* contends. I point out it is feasible technically and fits with the zeitgeist of Silicon Valley assholes.
Recall that part of the whole Russian Hacking the Election story involves the company Cambridge Analytica hacking the Facebook data on 87 million users because fewer than 300 thousand of their “friends” took a fun quiz on a Facebook app which exploited FB API security issues. Facebook “prohibited” the selling of data collected this way, but Cambridge Analytica sold the data anyway.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/23/17151916/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-diagram
Of course, Facebook is a tough cop when it comes to their users’ privacy.
Not surprising when Mark “Privacy is Dead” Zuckerberg is the CEO.
Apps are capable of all kinds of mischief, like this most recent example: stealing your crypto currencies:
http://www.arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/google-play-caught-hosting-an-app-that-steals-users-cryptocurrency
Of course it is feasible to control of device, especially when the government wants tech companies to leave backdoors open on their platforms:
https://www.wired.com/2014/07/hackers-can-control-your-phone-using-a-tool-thats-already-built-into-it/
Here’s another example.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/427103/how-a-web-link-can-take-control-of-your-phone/
and you can even do it to a loved one!
http://www.technows.com/how-to-hack-into-someones-phone/
This is all obvious. Who knows exactly how devices are being exploited? We won’t know until the particular exploit is discovered and publicized.
However, I offered a different explanation from Joe’s that is I believe less “conspiracy-y”:
Maybe I should have said “more likely.” It was really late so word choice could be improved, no doubt. It is more likely that corporations would rely on social network analysis than hacking, I am suggesting, though who the hell knows what these guys are up to. Google seems to keep getting fined for some reason. They keep coming up with excuses like test code got left in, or the program accidentally stored more info than intended. Yep, happens all the time.
Here is an example of social network analysis that can predict things about you that you’ve never revealed:
https://www.futurity.org/social-media-friends-privacy-1725722/
If that is possible, certainly Netflix might infer that Joe might like 80s Van Damm movies if his friend is of the right predictive type and googles the movie earlier that day while they were talking. This isn’t magic. I expect something like this is going on, otherwise Netflix is behind the curve.
So, I’m still not seeing conspiracy theories being promulgated.
The issue I have with a statement like Another conspiracy theory gone mad is that it attempts to use stigma and derision to cut off debate or at least to limit its scope to a narrowly defined range. There is a famous quote (that is probably misattributed so I won’t attribute it) that is applicable here:
I will, however, suggest following up on a topic related to electronic devices and illegal surveillance that touches on a “conspiracy.” Here is a short William Binney interview on Stellar Wind, a program that monitors all electronic communications in the US. If you don’t know who Binney is, this is highly recommended as a taste:
At around 6:02, he uses the word “conspiracy” with regard to Bush, Cheney, Tenet (CIA), Hayden (NSA) subverting the constitution and US law.
A documentary on Binney, “A Good American”, describes the “thinthread” program that he believes would have stopped 9/11, but was purposely ignored/shelved:
The NSA honchos wanted a significantly more expensive system. Apparently thinthread was too thin.
Binney is the main guy who created a lot of the technology that the NSA uses to collect all our data. He was so good that even early in his career (1968), he predicted the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia based on phone metadata, ie, just the change in patterns of calls between key people in the USSR.
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