Posted by alexandra_k on September 3, 2019, at 3:27:01
In reply to Re: Dr. Bob alias Robert C. Hsiung I have an idea, posted by ert on September 2, 2019, at 5:02:44
I imagine that education could help. Knowledge of mechanism. I remember someone showing me how to bypass the windows login for Windows 95. You just closed the password pop up window like you closed any other window. You clicked on the little 'close' icon at the top right. I was... Shocked.
Sometimes the best defence is similarly... Basic. Put a piece of sticky paper over the camera when you don't want the camera to be recording / broadcasting. Simple enough measure.
Until it... Catches on. Until... Enough of the people catch on. I guess you always gotta be running running running ahead of the curve.
I remember being told 'turn it off at the wall if you aren't using it'.
Simple measures.
Permissions people voluntarily sign away when they download this, that, or the other thing.
I don't use Facebook.
I don't stay in touch.
My people sold out or... Were beamed out.
I decided I needed to learn / know Medicine. For myself. So I could make informed decisions. Because the Doctors I met were... Not as smart as me. Often. Because I don't think they applied themselves to working out what was going on with me, than I would. And not just me... Other people, too. What was going on for them, even.
And of course everyone thinks I'm a fool for having come back to this country. Trouble is that people have chosen to invest in teaching me a lesson in why it was a bad idea. They did not choose to make sacrifies in their own case to work towards such a thing... Stuffed if they are going to let anyone else do it, if they can get away with preventing them...
Is a problem.
I don't want to be a martyr. I guess it's about whether they choose to sacrifice me. At the end of the day. If they think ending me is worth ending them. It is scary because we know already they don't value their lives (or even the choices they have made of what to do with their lives) overly much.
I don't have a computer old enough to work without internet access, I don't think...
One computer drops the internet sometimes. Sometimes the date on it changes. Like it's the year 2000 and the Millenium bug hit it and because the date isn't right it won't go online... Perhaps there is a window of hope, for it.
I am starting to imagine myself with a tinfoil hat. Sigh.
I choose to believe that those with most power... Most technology... Are most intelligent. Most good.
In other words... I try not to lose sleep over the idea that my privacy is being violated. The kind of privacy violation I worry about is privacy violation from those at the lowest levels. The unsophisticated ones who only get to violate my privacy because... Their violations are being monitored.
Like... All the people who failed my written assessments (e.g., very low grades on laboratory reports or essay exercises)... How all that is uploaded to 'Turnitin' to monitor them. The people too stupid to realise the true function of such a thing.
I really don't want to be a matyr... But things have been developing backwards, here. Everyone is on the 'take what you can get and then flee' lifeplan.
And now I feel cross with the rest of the world...
The segments of Australia and the US that I have seen...
If I were to be an academic philosopher. To work for that.
But what about the pursuit of knowledge?
Socrates was a fool for not fleeing. For staying and drinking the Hemlock.
But did he need to be matyred for the founding of Plato's Academy?
What would he have got for fleeing?
Would they have let him be part of an academy someplace else?
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