Colonel Flatulence doesn’t have any friends.

It’s an important life skill, being able to plant a thought in the mind of another and in a way that is likely to be accepted.

It crossed my mind since my last writing that, in the 80s, I got a money back guarantee for any counter-surveillance equipment purchased that didn’t reveal surveillance equipment in a Fortune 100 facility. It was that pervasive back then. And my perception is that morals and business ethics have not improved in the interim. Far from it.

Good luck and thanks for the valuable, respectful input.

Points well made and taken, thanks. No hostility perceived at all.

Reasonable minds can differ and frequently do. And it could be that people may think my suggestion is unrealistic or even silly.

There’s no shortage of miscreants out there who just like to mess with things, thrown wrenches into spokes, etc. And these types could well be behind the daily local issues.

But here’s an important point, and no offense intended. Corporations are like The Terminator. But instead of getting Sarah Connor, they purse profits. And regardless of CEO intelligence or accumen, every Fortune 500 company has a department that deals in these areas. They all have their skunk works and use them. It’s been this way for centuries. A primer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage

So whether they’re operating here atm or not, there is nothing paranoid about assuming they are. If they’re not, they will be. It’s what they do.

Thanks for the input. :)

Every account they lose hits them in the pocketbook. The bigger the fediverse gets, the more adherents, the greater the momentum it will have and the harder it will be to stop.

Nipping it in the bud is the best, easiest, and least expensive place to nip it.

The downvotes suggest their operatives are reading the comments.

I wonder if the owners of deddit, fb, tweetster, et al, might think it financially worthwhile to cause disruption in the fediverse, and even its ultimate failure.

By pwning the three branches of government and, therefore, the regulatory environment.

Ignorance makes her confident. But one can’t be so charitable about the company’s fraud.

I don’t see how the app could possibly function without access to your call logs and messages. /s

I was admonished to be careful on a dirtbike as a child, had a fear reinforced in me. Meanwhile, this other kid was quite aggressive, and would piss me off when he’d fly by me on the track. In contrast with my parents cautions, his parents encouraged his style and he was a very highly ranked competitor in the state. He was WOT no matter where he was, turns, jumps, passing me. Absolutely fearless.

He had a bad day at the races when he was about 10 years old, suffered a significant brain injury. And he hasn’t been independent since.

Yeah! And you can’t even run. Because it’s watching you. Sitting right. beside. the mortar. Directing fire. Straight on top of you.

I’d hate to see one of those things. No good could come of it.

I get that these aren’t tech people. But there’s a serious gap in protocol that seems to give them the ol’ Whoosh.

If I walked up on the street and asked to see somone’s dB? Lol

If a mutual acquaintance asked for your number? I’d call you with their number.

So would these non-techies. But put them on a machine and they seem to lose their minds.

Psst, want me to help you? Just give me your dB. I’ll make it easy for ya.

And they think that’s okay.

Absolutely. Point being, the drone, regardless of type or size or payload, is a deadly threat.

So, no. It’s not a waste of a SAM to take it out.

There are so many platforms anymore that I have neither the time nor desire to keep up with even a quarter of them. So maybe eight years back, a friend suggests I check out Snap Chat.

I jump on there to find about 20 pages of names of people who thought it was okay, acceptable, to share my info from their database. I’ve always been very careful and discreet with mine. But to have it thrown right in my face like that, whew. Here’s my message to those folks:

If you think it’s okay to share my private number, or anything else I’ve provided in confidence, with the planet, please delete my number.

While in itself not deadly, that drone can direct death straight to your location.

Just what I’d expect a robot to say while plotting to overthrow humanity and steal all our jobs.

I’ve sat at keyboards beside people studiously working their own. My presumption was that we were working on the same project. Then they have their AHA moment, and show me how they’ve hacked into our host machine.

They didn’t do it for money or to cause disruption. They did it to see if they could, and succeeding was reward enough. Then, happy as could be, they set off in pursuit of their next accomplishment.

Ya never know what’s going through others’ minds or what motivates them.

It’s well established that Rdeadit* doesn’t make foolish moves. /s

I’m not saying they’re behind this. I think they are not. But I’m not ruling them out because of their acumen.

During the event a message flashed on my screen, “This website has been seized by Rdeadit for copyright violation”. That suggested two things to me. Rdeadit didn’t write that. Whoever did write it doesn’t understand how a domain would legally be seized.

I don’t buy his ‘fell asleep’ excuse. It seems more likely that there was a medical episode that he doesn’t want to reveal, lest it threaten a commercial driver license.

Or maybe he just goes off like a light switch into impertubable REM sleep. Nah.